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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does L tell M he has always felt most at home?
(a) His childhood home.
(b) His New York studio.
(c) Wherever he can paint.
(d) A cabin in the woods.

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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 told her she was not worth helping.
(c) He ignored her while she spoke.
(d) He doodled a character map.

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

7. What did L tell M he had spent most of his life as?
(a) A beggar.
(b) A thief.
(c) A sinner.
(d) A puppet.

8. To whom is the narrator speaking in Second Place?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Jenson.
(c) Jeffers.
(d) Jasper.

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

10. How does the narrator describe the freedom that L's painting emanated?
(a) Beautifully narcissistic.
(b) Unrepentantly male.
(c) Undoubtedly female.
(d) Elegantly silent.

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

12. What was the narrator doing in Paris when she noticed a sign with a painting by L?
(a) Having wine with a man.
(b) Heading to meet a friend for dinner.
(c) Drinking espresso in a cafe.
(d) Searching for something to eat.

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

14. How did Tony's parents die?
(a) They were murdered.
(b) They committed suicide.
(c) They drowned.
(d) They were in a fatal car accident.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did M think Brett was imaging as she stared at her and Tony when they first met?

2. What does M tell L made her feel “dowdy and ugly, like a consolation prize” (57)?

3. What was the only request Tony made regarding M's appearance?

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

5. Who did L tell M he wanted to paint first?

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