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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does M tell L made her feel “dowdy and ugly, like a consolation prize” (57)?
(a) His gratitude.
(b) His apathy in her presence.
(c) Her husband's lack of interest.
(d) His girlfriend.

2. 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) A thief.
(c) The devil.
(d) Her first husband.

3. Who is Kurt?
(a) A musician who stayed in the second place.
(b) Tony's brother.
(c) Justine's boyfriend.
(d) M's first husband.

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

5. What did Tony want in the second place, which M did not?
(a) Beds.
(b) Curtains.
(c) Windows.
(d) Doors.

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 father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His aunt and uncle.
(d) His older siblings.

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

8. What type of business did L's family own?
(a) Tree farm.
(b) Slaughterhouse.
(c) Bowling alley.
(d) Dairy farm.

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

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

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

12. 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) Updated the plumbing.
(d) Stocked the fridge with his favorite foods.

13. How old was L when he first became famous?
(a) In his 20s.
(b) In his 50s.
(c) In his 60s.
(d) In his 30s.

14. What period of M's life does she say her first encounter with L's artwork coincided?
(a) Falling in love with Tony.
(b) Her happiest days.
(c) Her most creative time.
(d) Her darkest years.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was L when M first wrote to him?

3. What did Tony fail to do, which sometimes made M feel invisible?

4. Where did Tony get his wardrobe?

5. What element of L's early artwork shocked his audience?

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