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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 109 - 142.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason did L give to M for not wanting to paint her portrait?
(a) He could not really see her.
(b) He was not really a portrait painter.
(c) He did not find her beautiful.
(d) He was afraid of his attraction to her.

2. What did Tony begin doing which meant he did not have time to sit for L?
(a) Build a third place.
(b) Repaint the main house.
(c) Catch and sell mackerel.
(d) Build an irrigation system.

3. What did M once see a musician who was staying in the second place to record bird songs doing?
(a) Making love to a woman.
(b) Frying eggs naked.
(c) Talking to a bird as if it could understand.
(d) Flapping around and pretending to be a bird.

4. What was the only request Tony made regarding M's appearance?
(a) She dressed very modestly.
(b) She did not cut or dye her hair.
(c) She wore short skirts.
(d) She wore red lipstick.

5. Which style of painting most spoke to the narrator as she walked through his gallery in Paris?
(a) Landscapes.
(b) Surrealist.
(c) Portraits.
(d) Modernist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did L suspect gave his father the bruises he often saw on him when he was dying?

2. What did M learn about Justine's time with her father?

3. What did M think was a "pointless squandering of [Justine's] femininity" (71)?

4. What did M's psychoanalyst do which she found offensive and so she stopped seeing him?

5. What did Tony and M do to prepare the second place for L's arrivals the first time he said he would come?

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