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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color are the curtains in the woman's imagined apartment?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) White.

2. About what do the man and woman argue?
(a) War.
(b) Money.
(c) Love.
(d) Sex.

3. What does Laura call Iris's unborn child?
(a) A baby.
(b) A kitten.
(c) A parasite.
(d) A puppy.

4. The woman receives a telegram informing her of what?
(a) The man has been wounded.
(b) The man is coming home in a week.
(c) The man has found a house for them.
(d) The man has died.

5. What does the woman say is her salvation?
(a) Imagining the man imagining her.
(b) Imaging the man fighting valiantly.
(c) Her baby.
(d) Reliving her time spent with the man.

6. The man tells the woman a story about the lizard men from what planet?
(a) Saturn.
(b) Zycron.
(c) Aa'A.
(d) Xenor.

7. Laura is scared by her father dressing up as what character when she and Iris are children?
(a) Santa Claus.
(b) The Easter Bunny.
(c) Cupid.
(d) Jesus.

8. What does Iris call 'The Blind Assassin'?
(a) A left-handed book.
(b) An inspired book.
(c) A collaborative book.
(d) A right-handed book.

9. Who is the inspiration for the man in the sub novel?
(a) Norval Chase.
(b) Elwood Murray.
(c) Richard Griffen.
(d) Alex Thomas.

10. In chapter 9, the girls visit Reenie at what establishment where she works?
(a) Diana Sweets.
(b) Lucy's Diner.
(c) The Gingerbread House.
(d) Betty's Luncheonette.

11. What is the name of Iris's daughter?
(a) Adelia Iris Griffen.
(b) Aimee Adelia Griffen.
(c) Adelia Laura Griffen.
(d) Amanda Winifred Griffen.

12. How does Richard react when Laura tells him sending her to school is a waste of time?
(a) He disagrees and makes her stay at that school.
(b) He disagrees and transfers her to another school.
(c) He agrees.
(d) He disagrees and decides he will tutor her himself.

13. Where does the woman read the man's story?
(a) Locked in the bedroom.
(b) Locked in the bathroom.
(c) In the back of a taxi.
(d) On a train.

14. Why does Iris try to go downstairs in chapter 9?
(a) To hide something.
(b) She hears a noise.
(c) To try to find something.
(d) To do laundry.

15. Where did Laura go when she first left Bella Vista?
(a) Avilion.
(b) Sunnyside.
(c) Montreal.
(d) Halifax.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the woman and the man do after the woman meets him when he briefly returns from the war?

2. In the passage in Laura's Latin notebook, what was the character Iris's role?

3. Richard receives a letter concerning the psychiatric treatment of which character?

4. What happens when the men try to leave Aa'A?

5. What word is Iris thinking about in the last section of chapter 13?

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