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

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) Stealing their money.
(c) M and Tony having sex.
(d) Running away.

2. 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 mother.
(c) His aunt and uncle.
(d) His father.

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

4. What does M call the cabin on her and her husband's property?
(a) The artist's residence.
(b) The tiny house.
(c) The second place.
(d) The other place.

5. Where else in the world did the narrator get the same feeling she had when looking at L's paintings?
(a) The streets of Paris.
(b) The woods.
(c) Her husband's marsh.
(d) Her quiet study.

6. Who is Brett?
(a) L's female companion.
(b) Justine's college roommate.
(c) L's daughter.
(d) Justine's boyfriend.

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

8. What did Kurt and Justine do at the house while M and Tony drove to get L?
(a) Slept.
(b) Ordered pizza.
(c) Cooked dinner.
(d) Watched television.

9. Who does the narrator say appears to be free, which "doesn't look like much" (8)?
(a) Justine.
(b) Kurt.
(c) Jeffers.
(d) Tony.

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

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 Good Housekeeping magazine.
(c) A romance novel.
(d) A fairy tale.

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

13. Who did the narrator meet during her darkest years who helped improve her life?
(a) Arthur.
(b) Jeffers.
(c) Tony.
(d) Kurt.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of vehicle does Tony drive?

2. What disease does M think L's father died from?

3. What period of M's life does she say her first encounter with L's artwork coincided?

4. What did Tony wear to the harbor town when picking up L?

5. Though Tony's adopted parents never spoke of his origins, what did M suspect they were?

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