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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What mode of transportation does L tell M he will take to meet her?
(a) A jeep.
(b) A private jet.
(c) A boat.
(d) A horse.

5. Which relative of Brett's aided in she and L's arrival in the harbor town?
(a) Her billionaire cousin.
(b) Her millionaire mother.
(c) Her wealthy uncle.
(d) Her rich father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does L tell M he always feel the need to escape during their first conversation after he arrived at the second place?

2. What type of vehicle does Tony drive?

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

4. How old was L when he first became famous?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is M's impression of Brett when she first meets her?

2. What issue did Brett have with the bed linen in the second place? What did she want M to do?

3. What does Tony say to M when she gets angry with him after L says he is not staying with them?

4. What did the narrator do on her final night in Paris and with whom?

5. Whose portrait did L tell M he wanted to paint? How did she feel that he did not wish to paint her? What did she say to him about this?

6. What did Tony find after clearing the adjacent land he bought near the marsh? What did he do there?

7. What do readers learn of L's backstory in the fourth chapter?

8. What does the narrator say her first experience with L coincided with? What did she think L's visit would do in terms of her recovery?

9. Where was L when M first wrote to him? What did he say about the idea of being alone? Where did he say he felt most alone and free?

10. How is M's hair described at the time of L's visit? Why did she keep it that way?

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