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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Tony fail to do, which sometimes made M feel invisible?
2. What did Tony want in the second place, which M did not?
3. What did L ask M when he wrote that he was staying in Rio de Janeiro?
4. What was the only request Tony made regarding M's appearance?
5. What disease does M think L's father died from?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What did the narrator do on her final night in Paris and with whom?
3. What does the narrator feel L's painting emanated when she first saw them that morning in Paris, which compelled her to follow it to the art gallery?
4. What did Tony find after clearing the adjacent land he bought near the marsh? What did he do there?
5. How does L behave at the harbor town when M and Tony first meet him?
6. What do readers learn about Tony's backstory in the third chapter?
7. What do readers learn of L's backstory in the fourth chapter?
8. What issue did Brett have with the bed linen in the second place? What did she want M to do?
9. How is M's hair described at the time of L's visit? Why did she keep it that way?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay about the author of Second Place. Who is she? What else has she written? How is Second Place similar or different from her previous works?
Essay Topic 2
Several times in the novel, M refers to a time after taking a train from Paris that her life spun downward. What do you think happened based on the details she provides in the story?
Essay Topic 3
Write a brief essay analyzing the title Second Place. Explore the ways in which this title connects to the plot and themes of the story.
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