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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) Kurt.
(c) Jeffers.
(d) Tony.

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

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

4. What does the narrator say Tony "does not show weakness of" (22)?
(a) Spirit.
(b) Pride.
(c) Neglect.
(d) Charity.

5. What did M once see a musician who was staying in the second place to record bird songs doing?
(a) Talking to a bird as if it could understand.
(b) Frying eggs naked.
(c) Making love to a woman.
(d) Flapping around and pretending to be a bird.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling did L tell M he had from his early experience with death living near a slaughterhouse?

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

3. Who does the narrator say she meant on a train at the start of the novel, which made the following years difficult?

4. What period of M's life does she say her first encounter with L's artwork coincided?

5. Though Tony's adopted parents never spoke of his origins, what did M suspect they were?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. Where did L stay instead of coming to the second place? What happened to him while there? Where did he invite M during that winter?

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