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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does the narrator use to describe the writer with whom she spent her last night in Paris?
(a) Earnest.
(b) Environmentalist.
(c) Egotist.
(d) Eccentric.

2. Who did L tell M he wanted to paint first?
(a) Tony.
(b) Brett.
(c) M.
(d) Kurt.

3. What does L tell M he always feel the need to escape during their first conversation after he arrived at the second place?
(a) His own mind.
(b) Society.
(c) Women.
(d) Fame.

4. In what way does Brett seem out of place when they meet at the harbor town?
(a) She is overly affectionate.
(b) She is very quiet.
(c) She is overdressed.
(d) She is dressed in rags.

5. Which relative of Brett's aided in she and L's arrival in the harbor town?
(a) Her wealthy uncle.
(b) Her rich father.
(c) Her billionaire cousin.
(d) Her millionaire mother.

6. How far away is the harbor town where M and Tony need to pick up L?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 5 minutes.
(c) 5 hours.
(d) 20 minutes.

7. Who does the narrator say she meant on a train at the start of the novel, which made the following years difficult?
(a) Her father.
(b) The devil.
(c) Her first husband.
(d) A thief.

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

9. What type of vehicle does Tony drive?
(a) A jeep.
(b) A pick-up truck.
(c) A minivan.
(d) A corvette.

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

11. How did Brett and L arrive in the harbor town?
(a) Limosine.
(b) Private jet.
(c) Boat.
(d) Cadillac.

12. How old was M when L came to the marsh?
(a) 35.
(b) 65.
(c) 50.
(d) 27.

13. Who told M they had started willing L to come stay in the second place after L finally agreed to come?
(a) Kurt.
(b) Jeffers.
(c) Justine.
(d) Tony.

14. What did M's psychoanalyst do which she found offensive and so she stopped seeing him?
(a) He told other people what she told him.
(b) He ignored her while she spoke.
(c) He doodled a character map.
(d) He told her she was not worth helping.

15. Why does the narrator say nothing as she watches an old man fondle a little girl on the train?
(a) She did not care.
(b) The man threatened her.
(c) She had lost her voice.
(d) She hoped someone else would.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of business did L's family own?

2. Who is the author of Second Place?

3. Why did Brett want M to buy new bed linens?

4. How are the people with whom L lived while his father died described?

5. What did M tell L Tony's early experience with death forced him to do?

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