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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. Where does Tom spend five days wandering around?
(a) Rome
(b) Milan
(c) Palermo
(d) Athens

2. Who phones Tom after breakfast?
(a) Marge
(b) Dickie
(c) Freddie
(d) The police

3. What is the bottom of the boat covered in?
(a) Beer
(b) Semen
(c) Blood
(d) Rags

4. What does Tom call himself/
(a) Lucky
(b) Pathetic
(c) A nobody
(d) Ugly

5. What kind of drink is Tom drinking with Marge and the Franchetti brothers?
(a) Cocktails
(b) Coca colas
(c) Beers
(d) Champagne

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only modern part of the palazzo?

2. What does Tom buy at 8 am?

3. What does Tom decide to forge?

4. Who does Tom say he was with on the 2nd of February in Rome?

5. What is Alvin McCarron's job?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the police think Freddie was murdered?

2. How does Tom exaggerate the Tom Ripley persona?

3. Why do the police want to know where Tom Ripley is ?

4. What does the countess tell Tom in Chapter 29?

5. How does Tom try to hide that Freddie is dead when he takes him outside?

6. How does Mr. Greeleaf react when Marge tells him about Dickie's rings?

7. What does Tom tell Marge on the phone?

8. What does Tom decide is a great thing about Europe?

9. What does Tom read in the newspapers in Chapter 30?

10. Why does Marge think that Dickie's signature must have changed?

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