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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Justine spend most of her time while Tony and Kurt built an irrigation system?
(a) Herself.
(b) Brett.
(c) M.
(d) L.

2. What did L sometimes say to Brett regarding his foul moods?
(a) He was going through the change.
(b) She had to deal with it.
(c) He was going to kill himself.
(d) He was expressing his creativity.

3. What did M's ex call her when he picked Justine up from school one day?
(a) That terrible woman.
(b) That lost soul.
(c) That sad excuse for a mother.
(d) That miserable hag.

4. What did M say before L jumped on the table and asked, "Shall we have fun?" (107)?
(a) She came down there for a good time.
(b) She found L attractive.
(c) Life with Tony was the pits.
(d) She had never had enough fun in life.

5. What did M find L's interest in going to Paris reminded her of?
(a) Her darkest years.
(b) Falling in love with Tony.
(c) The writer she met there.
(d) The freedom she lacked.

6. Who drank the least when everyone from the main house and the second house sat by the fire?
(a) Justine.
(b) L.
(c) Brett.
(d) M.

7. How did M sometimes feel when Tony asked Kurt to help him with work?
(a) She felt please her daughter had found such a masculine boyfriend.
(b) She felt glad Kurt could take some of the burden off Tony.
(c) She wanted to protest.
(d) She felt relieved he was not asking her.

8. What did L finally agree to do after M told him more about her past?
(a) Send Brett home.
(b) Convince Kurt to leave.
(c) Leave the second place.
(d) Paint her portrait.

9. How did M feel when Tony, Justine, and Kurt seemed suspicious at her excitement when L agreed to paint her?
(a) She felt nobody wanted her to be happy.
(b) She thought they were jealous.
(c) She thought they just did not understand.
(d) She thought they were afraid she would have an affair with L.

10. Why did the group gather in the living room of the main house one evening?
(a) To tell Brett and L they had to leave.
(b) To hear Brett and Justine sing and Kurt read.
(c) To have a family meeting.
(d) To ask Kurt to move.

11. What did Justine tell M Brett did while she put herself through medical school?
(a) Danced in the London ballet.
(b) Worked as a waitress.
(c) Worked as a sailing instructor.
(d) Taught night school.

12. What did L tell M she played at being?
(a) An artist.
(b) A mother.
(c) A caring person.
(d) A woman.

13. Who did L say was a “fat and coarse” woman who he found “physically loathsome” (102)?
(a) Brett.
(b) His mother.
(c) Justine.
(d) Candy.

14. What surprised M when she went to the second place to bring L a package that had arrived for him?
(a) They took her curtains down.
(b) They trashed the place.
(c) They repainted the walls.
(d) L was dead.

15. What did L's father do when he was young to keep him near him and away from his mother?
(a) Give him drawing materials.
(b) Read him books.
(c) Have him work with him.
(d) Tie him to a tree nearby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Candy ask L to do in her letter to him while he was in the second place?

2. What did L say when Kurt asked for opinions after he finished his reading?

3. How much of Justine's young life was M unable to care for her?

4. Who was the only one of the group who did not sing along with Justine as she sang and played her guitar?

5. What does M assure L the sound he heard was, which was no cause for worry?

(see the answer keys)

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