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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 new career path does Kurt announce after Justine begins spending more time with Brett?
(a) Writer.
(b) Painter.
(c) Carpenter.
(d) Sailor.

2. Why did M spend extra time fixing up the living room the evening they gathered as a group?
(a) Kurt and Justine were going to announce their engagement.
(b) It was Justine's birthday.
(c) In case L came.
(d) It was Tony's birthday.

3. What did M say before L jumped on the table and asked, "Shall we have fun?" (107)?
(a) Life with Tony was the pits.
(b) She found L attractive.
(c) She came down there for a good time.
(d) She had never had enough fun in life.

4. What did M think was a "pointless squandering of [Justine's] femininity" (71)?
(a) Her time spent with Kurt.
(b) The fact that she never really dated.
(c) Her lack of lipstick or eye makeup.
(d) The plain way she dressed.

5. What did M realize about the mural Brett and L were making on the walls of the second place?
(a) It was going to increase the value of her property.
(b) Brett was the best painter she had seen.
(c) L was not a very good painter.
(d) She was Eve.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did M learn about Justine's time with her father?

2. How did M feel when Tony, Justine, and Kurt seemed suspicious at her excitement when L agreed to paint her?

3. What did M find L's interest in going to Paris reminded her of?

4. What does Kurt begin wearing after announcing his new career path?

5. Who drank the least when everyone from the main house and the second house sat by the fire?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Justine's relationship with Brett change her?

2. What does Candy say in the letter L received while at the second place?

3. What does M tell L when he asks how she paid for their land and homes?

4. Why did the family gather in the living room one night while M fixed it up extra nice in case L joined them?

5. How did M interpret L's long explanation for why he would not paint her portrait the day he found her picking edible greens by the water? How did L respond to M's reaction?

6. What new career path does Kurt decide he is going to take? What does he do to prepare?

7. What were Brett and L doing when M approached the second place for her portrait sitting? Why did M think they were mocking her?

8. What did Kurt tell M about L the day after his reading? What advice did L give to Kurt regarding Justine? What did Kurt warn M that L had said to him?

9. Why does M think parents try to predict how a child will turn out? What does she think is all that really matters in terms of parenting?

10. Why does M find it interesting that Kurt is able to speak so freely with L?

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