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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. Where does L tell M he has always felt most at home?
2. Who is Brett?
3. What type of vehicle does Tony drive?
4. Where else in the world did the narrator get the same feeling she had when looking at L's paintings?
5. Who does the narrator say she meant on a train at the start of the novel, which made the following years difficult?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Tony and M do to prepare the second place for L's arrival?
2. How old was L when he first became famous? What did his critics find shocking about his early work?
3. How does L behave at the harbor town when M and Tony first meet him?
4. 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?
5. What do readers learn about Tony's backstory in the third chapter?
6. 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?
7. Who is the narrator speaking to at the start of the novel? What does she say happened while on a train in Paris?
8. 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?
9. What did Tony find after clearing the adjacent land he bought near the marsh? What did he do there?
10. What happened on the narrator's final morning in Paris when she saw a particular sign?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Read a review of Second Place. Write an essay about how this review impacted your own views or understanding of the story.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing Cusk's language style and word choice in Second Place. What are some words that stand out to you and why? What words are repeated? What words are most impactful? Explain your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay exploring the central purpose of this story. What response do you think the author hoped to get from her readers? Do you think she was successful? Why or why not?
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