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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is wrong with the elder Iris?
(a) She has a heart condition.
(b) She has cancer.
(c) She has diabetes.
(d) She has emphysema.

2. Who is the man with his head on fire?
(a) Norval Chase.
(b) Walter Sturgess.
(c) Alex Thomas.
(d) Richard Griffen.

3. According to Laura, why was she sent to the mental institution?
(a) She would not cooperate with Winifred's plans to marry her off.
(b) She thought Richard was poisoning Iris.
(c) She was pregnant.
(d) She wanted to kill Richard.

4. Iris realizes that Laura's lover was whom, based on the notebooks her sister left behind?
(a) Norval.
(b) Elwood.
(c) Richard.
(d) Alex.

5. What does the man omit from the published story that distresses the woman?
(a) The Peach Women.
(b) The conquest of the People of Desolation.
(c) The romance between the tongueless virgin and blind assassin.
(d) The Lizard Men.

6. In the woman's imagination, the man is sitting next to a woman who is doing what to pass the time?
(a) Reading.
(b) Talking to herself.
(c) Knitting.
(d) Writing.

7. What does the man say all stories are about in some way?
(a) Slaughter.
(b) Wolves.
(c) Aliens.
(d) Virgins.

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

9. What does Iris say she finds most memorable about her time on the ship save for her interactions with her sister?
(a) How lavish the parties were.
(b) How everyone took souvenirs with the ship's name.
(c) How beautiful the women's outfits were.
(d) How cruel Richard was to her.

10. The man tells the woman a story about the Peach Women of what planet?
(a) Zycron.
(b) Xenor.
(c) Aa'A.
(d) Saturn.

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

12. What does Sakiel-Norn represent for the woman?
(a) Hope.
(b) Her relationship with the man.
(c) Her childhood.
(d) Her naïveté.

13. What does the woman say surrounds the man?
(a) Waves of light.
(b) Blinding light.
(c) A halo.
(d) Shimmering light.

14. How does the woman's dream begin?
(a) She is the tongueless virgin and X has just come in to kill her.
(b) She sees a man out on the sidewalk.
(c) She walks onto the top of a roof.
(d) She receives a telegram.

15. How does the woman react when the man asks her to leave her husband?
(a) She refuses because she doesn't love him.
(b) She refuses because she has no way to earn money.
(c) She agrees and waits behind for him to come back from Europe.
(d) She agrees and accompanies him overseas.

Short Answer Questions

1. In chapter 13, Iris recounts the start of what war?

2. Where does Iris find Laura's schoolbooks?

3. To what animal does Iris compare Walter?

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

5. Why does Iris try to go downstairs in chapter 9?

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