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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the freedom that L's painting emanated?
(a) Undoubtedly female.
(b) Unrepentantly male.
(c) Elegantly silent.
(d) Beautifully narcissistic.

2. Who was staying in the second place when L wrote announcing that he would finally go there?
(a) Jeffers.
(b) Justine and Kurt.
(c) Tony.
(d) M.

3. How long before she wrote to L did the narrator first see his artwork?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 1 year.

4. Where was the narrator heading when she met someone on a train which changed the course of her life?
(a) Istanbul.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

5. Where else in the world did the narrator get the same feeling she had when looking at L's paintings?
(a) Her quiet study.
(b) Her husband's marsh.
(c) The woods.
(d) The streets of Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tony discover when clearing the land near their house after he purchased it?

2. Why does the narrator say nothing as she watches an old man fondle a little girl on the train?

3. What did Tony want in the second place, which M did not?

4. How many children does the narrator tell Jeffers she had when she went to Paris?

5. What type of painting by L was the narrator drawn to that morning in Paris?

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