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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Iris and Laura's mother die?
(a) Drowns.
(b) Complications of childbirth.
(c) Catches a mysterious ailment.
(d) An unknown form of cancer, most likely uterine.

2. What item does the man often ask the woman to bring him?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Money.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Copies of his stories.

3. What hobby does Laura take up?
(a) Journalism.
(b) Painting.
(c) Drawing.
(d) Photography.

4. What does Iris see hanging from the tree outside her former home?
(a) Toilet paper.
(b) A cat.
(c) A man's legs.
(d) Pantyhose.

5. Who drives Iris to Montreal to see the lawyer?
(a) Walter.
(b) Myra.
(c) Winifred.
(d) Sabrina.

6. How did Winifred Griffen Prior die?
(a) Illness.
(b) Drowning.
(c) Suicide.
(d) A fatal fall.

7. Why does Iris dislike the Laura Chase Memorial Prize?
(a) She thinks children these days are awful writers.
(b) She does not think Laura would want such an award named after her.
(c) Winifred provided the money for it.
(d) She does not think Laura's work is a very good example of quality writing.

8. What was the theme of the charity ball Winifred organized according to the newspaper article?
(a) Xanadu.
(b) Masquerade.
(c) Commedia dell'artre.
(d) Tamurlane in Samarkand.

9. In what country is the novel set?
(a) U.S.A.
(b) England.
(c) Canada.
(d) France.

10. In what year is Iris writing her memoir?
(a) 1992.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2000.

11. What is the name of the restaurant where Richard proposes to Iris?
(a) The Imperial Room.
(b) The Regency.
(c) The Millennium Room.
(d) The Arcadian Court.

12. Where does Iris keep Laura's notebooks?
(a) A drawer.
(b) A coffee can.
(c) A sealed jar.
(d) A steamer trunk.

13. For what is the Chase family house named?
(a) A manor found in Frances Hodgson Burnett's writing.
(b) An island found in Tennyson's writing.
(c) A castle found in T.H. White's writing.
(d) A city in the Bible.

14. What does the woman say she would do if caught with the man?
(a) Renounce him.
(b) Pay him to leave her alone.
(c) Defend his honor.
(d) Bribe a judge.

15. What is the real name of the girls' tutor?
(a) Miss Screwtape.
(b) Miss Lockwood.
(c) Miss Lucifer.
(d) Miss Goreham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does X do to the tongueless virgin?

2. What is the name of the man Laura meets at the picnic and invites to Avilion for dinner?

3. What does Laura do that always gets her into trouble?

4. Why do the man's next-door neighbors at the junction bother him?

5. Which character was said to "always be there" for the Chase sisters?

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