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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 is the name of the establishment where Laura and Iris meet after being apart for years?
(a) Diana Sweets.
(b) The Arcadian Court.
(c) Betty's Luncheonette.
(d) The Imperial Room.

2. What plagues the adult Aimee?
(a) Depression.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Cancer.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason Winifred and Richard give for why they commit Laura?

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

3. Iris realizes that Laura's lover was whom, based on the notebooks her sister left behind?

4. What does the woman say surrounds the man?

5. Where do Iris and Laura go to live after Iris leaves Richard?

Short Essay Questions

1. In chapter 11, how does Laura send Iris a message and what does this message look like.

2. In chapter 13, why does Walter come over to Iris's house?

3. What do the man and woman do when he first gets off the train?

4. How does the woman respond to the suggestion that she leave her husband before the man goes overseas?

5. What is the woman's attitude while aboard the cruise ship?

6. What are Winifred's feelings toward Iris's pregnancy?

7. What message does Laura leave for Iris in her school notebooks?

8. In chapter 10, the woman imagines the man in a variety of situations. Describe one of these situations.

9. In chapter 12, what is the significance of the yellow curtains?

10. How does the man and woman's story about the blind assassin and the tongueless girl end?

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