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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do Iris and Laura go to live after Iris leaves Richard?
(a) A new house in Port Ticonderoga.
(b) A new house in Montreal.
(c) A new house in Ottawa.
(d) Avilion.

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

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

5. What does the woman say war is like for the by-standers?
(a) Red and orange.
(b) Filled with color.
(c) Black and white.
(d) Monotone.

6. Where does Richard like to leave bruises on Iris?
(a) Her stomach.
(b) Her face.
(c) Her arms.
(d) Her thighs.

7. In chapter 12, what faux pas does Richard have to atone for?
(a) Divorcing Iris.
(b) Being too friendly with the Germans.
(c) Being new money.
(d) Having mistresses.

8. What is the name of the institution to which one of the characters is confined?
(a) Bella Vista.
(b) Oasis.
(c) Bella Sera.
(d) Montfort Psychiatric Asylum.

9. In chapter 13, Iris recounts the start of what war?
(a) World War I.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Spanish Civil War.
(d) The French Canadian War.

10. What is the name of the restaurant in which the man and woman eat dinner?
(a) The Piano Shack.
(b) The Gentleman's Club.
(c) The Top Hat Grill.
(d) The Imperial Room.

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

12. What does the woman dream about?
(a) Making love to the man.
(b) Meeting the man at the train station.
(c) Nursing the man back to health.
(d) Standing with the man watching Sakiel-Norn born.

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

14. In Laura's Latin book, Iris finds a passage from what work?
(a) Meditations.
(b) Ars Poetica.
(c) Metamorphoses.
(d) The Aeneid.

15. Where does Iris find the things Laura had stashed away at Avilion?
(a) Iris's old bedroom.
(b) The greenhouse.
(c) Laura's old bedroom.
(d) The attic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the woman read the man's story?

2. Where did Laura go when she first left Bella Vista?

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

4. Who is Aimee's biological father?

5. Richard Griffen warns of what in Spain?

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