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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Though the second place was built for M, who did Tony say would likely think it was for them?
(a) L.
(b) Justine.
(c) Jeffers.
(d) Kurt.

3. Where was Justine working before coming to the second place?
(a) Paris.
(b) New York.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Rome.

4. Where does L say he has never felt "freer and more alone" (19)?
(a) The marsh.
(b) L.A.
(c) New York.
(d) Paris.

5. What did M tell L Tony's early experience with death forced him to do?
(a) Change his evil ways.
(b) Cherish his family even more.
(c) Stay exactly where he was forever.
(d) Treat every day like the last.

6. Which of L's relatives threatened his life in some way forcing him to run away from home when he was a teen?
(a) His older siblings.
(b) His father.
(c) His aunt and uncle.
(d) His mother.

7. 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) Talking to a bird as if it could understand.
(c) Making love to a woman.
(d) Frying eggs naked.

8. What feeling did L tell M he had from his early experience with death living near a slaughterhouse?
(a) Every day was to be cherished.
(b) There was no point to life.
(c) He could not be destroyed.
(d) Life was fleeting.

9. What word does the narrator use to describe Jeffers at the start of the story?
(a) Moralist.
(b) Methodist.
(c) Masochist.
(d) Muralist.

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

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

12. Who is the author of Second Place?
(a) Rachel Cusack.
(b) Rachel Cusk.
(c) Rachel Champagne.
(d) Rachel Chaplain.

13. What does the narrator say she has wanted to be her whole life, but has never succeeded?
(a) Creative.
(b) Free.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Driven.

14. What did Tony and M do to prepare the second place for L's arrivals the first time he said he would come?
(a) Repainted the walls and waxed the floors.
(b) Filled the place with paints and canvases.
(c) Stocked the fridge with his favorite foods.
(d) Updated the plumbing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does L tell M he has always felt most at home?

2. Who did the narrator meet during her darkest years who helped improve her life?

3. What was the narrator doing in Paris when she noticed a sign with a painting by L?

4. What does L tell M he always feel the need to escape during their first conversation after he arrived at the second place?

5. With whom did L live while his father was dying?

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