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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 are the people with whom L lived while his father died described?
(a) Quiet and calm.
(b) Hardworking and rough around the edges.
(c) Rough and rambunctious.
(d) Studious and intellectually.

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

3. Who did M send to L and Brett to get a list of items they might need from the nearest town?
(a) Tony's friends.
(b) Tony.
(c) Justine and Kurt.
(d) Jeffers.

4. What element of L's early artwork shocked his audience?
(a) The femininity.
(b) The violence.
(c) The political commentary.
(d) The nudity.

5. Where did Tony get his wardrobe?
(a) His dead father and grandfather.
(b) M made it.
(c) The local thrift store.
(d) He ordered everything online.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where else in the world did the narrator get the same feeling she had when looking at L's paintings?

2. How did Brett and L arrive in the harbor town?

3. How far away is the harbor town where M and Tony need to pick up L?

4. How old was M when L came to the marsh?

5. What did Tony wear to the harbor town when picking up L?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe L and M's first interaction the morning after he arrived at the second place. How did she feel about him? How did he make her feel?

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

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

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

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

7. How does L behave at the harbor town when M and Tony first meet him?

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

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

10. 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?

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