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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. Where was the narrator heading when she met someone on a train which changed the course of her life?
(a) Paris.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) London.

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

3. What did L ask M when he wrote that he was staying in Rio de Janeiro?
(a) If she would join him.
(b) If she knew anyone in the area.
(c) If she had ever been there.
(d) If she could get him out of there.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did M's psychoanalyst do which she found offensive and so she stopped seeing him?

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

3. How does the narrator describe the freedom that L's painting emanated?

4. With whom did L live while his father was dying?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Kurt help M when trying to explain what Justine and Kurt needed to move into the main house so L could stay in the second place?

4. What did the narrator tell L about his artwork's impact on her life when she invited him to stay in the second place?

5. What does the narrator feel L's painting emanated when she first saw them that morning in Paris, which compelled her to follow it to the art gallery?

6. What happened on the narrator's final morning in Paris when she saw a particular sign?

7. What do readers learn about Tony's backstory in the third chapter?

8. How does the narrator describe the man she met on the train in Paris? What was he doing? Why did she not say something?

9. How old was L when he first became famous? What did his critics find shocking about his early work?

10. Where did M and Tony pick up L? What did Justine and Kurt do while they were away?

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