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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 36 - 68.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did M think Brett was imaging as she stared at her and Tony when they first met?
(a) Making love to Tony.
(b) M and Tony having sex.
(c) Stealing their money.
(d) Running away.

2. What type of painting by L was the narrator drawn to that morning in Paris?
(a) Abstract.
(b) Still life.
(c) Self-portrait.
(d) Landscape.

3. What did L tell M he found "obscene" (19) in his first letter to her?
(a) The way women dressed these days.
(b) The pollution in L.A.
(c) The amount of money he was making.
(d) The traffic in Boston.

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

5. What did Brett say the second place seemed to be straight out of when she first saw it?
(a) A Good Housekeeping magazine.
(b) A horror story.
(c) A fairy tale.
(d) A romance novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which style of painting most spoke to the narrator as she walked through his gallery in Paris?

2. Where else in the world did the narrator get the same feeling she had when looking at L's paintings?

3. What does M call the cabin on her and her husband's property?

4. In what way does Brett seem out of place when they meet at the harbor town?

5. What did Kurt and Justine do at the house while M and Tony drove to get L?

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