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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. What did Tony want in the second place, which M did not?
(a) Curtains.
(b) Windows.
(c) Beds.
(d) Doors.

2. What did L tell M he had spent most of his life as?
(a) A sinner.
(b) A beggar.
(c) A thief.
(d) A puppet.

3. Why did the narrator write a letter to L in the second section?
(a) To invite him to stay at her place.
(b) To ask him to teach her to paint.
(c) To tell him what a fan of his she was.
(d) To ask him to do an exhibit in her town.

4. How did Brett and L arrive in the harbor town?
(a) Private jet.
(b) Cadillac.
(c) Limosine.
(d) Boat.

5. What feeling did L tell M he had from his early experience with death living near a slaughterhouse?
(a) There was no point to life.
(b) He could not be destroyed.
(c) Life was fleeting.
(d) Every day was to be cherished.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does M call the cabin on her and her husband's property?

2. What mode of transportation does L tell M he will take to meet her?

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

4. Which of L's relatives threatened his life in some way forcing him to run away from home when he was a teen?

5. What reason did L give to M for not wanting to paint her portrait?

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. 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?

3. In what ways did L and Tony's early experiences with death manifest differently in each man?

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 Tony and M do to prepare the second place for L's arrival?

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

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

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

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

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

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