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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say she learned from a young age would have made her life easier?
(a) Being male.
(b) Being rich.
(c) Being well-educated.
(d) Being free.

2. What does the narrator say Tony "does not show weakness of" (22)?
(a) Pride.
(b) Charity.
(c) Spirit.
(d) Neglect.

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

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

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

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

7. Who was staying in the second place when L wrote announcing that he would finally go there?
(a) M.
(b) Justine and Kurt.
(c) Jeffers.
(d) Tony.

8. What is one example the narrator cites as moments when things do not turn out as planned?
(a) Building the second place.
(b) Motherhood.
(c) L's visit.
(d) Her first marriage.

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

10. 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.

11. Why did Brett want M to buy new bed linens?
(a) She did not like the color.
(b) Theirs were not warm enough.
(c) Theirs were too rough.
(d) L had soiled them.

12. 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 told other people what she told him.
(c) He doodled a character map.
(d) He ignored her while she spoke.

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

14. With whom did L live while his father was dying?
(a) His older sister and her husband.
(b) His aunt and uncle.
(c) His older brother.
(d) Foster parents.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many children does the narrator tell Jeffers she had when she went to Paris?

3. What did L tell M he had spent most of his life as?

4. What mode of transportation does L tell M he will take to meet her?

5. What does M call the cabin on her and her husband's property?

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