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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 activity do Fiona and Grant both recall during the drive to Meadowlake the day Fiona moves in?
(a) Writing poetry.
(b) Sunbathing.
(c) Cross-country skiing.
(d) Swimming.

2. What kind of passion does Grant congratulate himself for showing toward his young lovers even when it does not match the way he actually feels?
(a) Fatherly.
(b) Affectionate.
(c) Rough.
(d) Fiery.

3. A supervisor at Meadowlake tells Grant that the patients on which floor have separate rules than the patients on Fiona's floor?
(a) The third.
(b) The fourth.
(c) The first.
(d) The second.

4. What is NOT a virtue Grant names as being part of the character of "a philanderer" (286)?
(a) Pity.
(b) Generosity.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Sacrifice.

5. At the time of the narrative's events, Grant is writing a book about myths of what type?
(a) Norse.
(b) Roman.
(c) Greek.
(d) Japanese.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Fiona at the time she goes to live at Meadowlake?

2. What advice does Kristy offer to Grant at the end of his first visit to see Fiona at Meadowlake?

3. What country is NOT named as one to which Fiona and Grant had traveled during one of their winters after retirement?

4. What kind of ceiling is the large central area at Meadowlake said to exhibit?

5. After their retirement, Fiona and Grant began to engage in what activity together?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Munro use the dream motif to reveal information about Grant?

2. What would Grant have considered the ultimate price to pay for his adulterous ways?

3. What is Munro's purpose for including the detail about the scents of "dope and incense" (285)?

4. What consequences did Fiona suffer as a result of Grant's infidelities?

5. How and when did Fiona and Grant first meet?

6. When the narrative moves into the present, what setting is depicted?

7. What job had Fiona done prior to taking early retirement?

8. In what month does Fiona move into Meadowlake and why?

9. What comment does Fiona make on the way to Meadowlake that makes Grant want to turn the car around?

10. What gift does Grant bring to Fiona when he visits her at Meadowlake for the first time, and what is significant about the gift?

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