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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. Who told M they had started willing L to come stay in the second place after L finally agreed to come?
(a) Justine.
(b) Jeffers.
(c) Kurt.
(d) Tony.

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

3. Who was staying in the second place when L wrote announcing that he would finally go there?
(a) Tony.
(b) Justine and Kurt.
(c) Jeffers.
(d) M.

4. Who is Brett?
(a) Justine's boyfriend.
(b) L's female companion.
(c) Justine's college roommate.
(d) L's daughter.

5. Who is Kurt?
(a) A musician who stayed in the second place.
(b) Tony's brother.
(c) M's first husband.
(d) Justine's boyfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does L say he has never felt "freer and more alone" (19)?

2. What does the narrator say she learned from a young age would have made her life easier?

3. What did Brett say the second place seemed to be straight out of when she first saw it?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. Who is the narrator speaking to at the start of the novel? What does she say happened while on a train in Paris?

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

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. 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 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?

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