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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. The day Montgomery goes to the hardware shop, he goes somewhere else instead of home. Where does he go?
(a) For a walk in the park.
(b) To a museum.
(c) Sightseeing.
(d) A garage to buy a car.

2. Montgomery makes a side comment to the court expressing his surprise in something. What is he surprised about?
(a) The effort people are making to save him from jail.
(b) The continuous mentioning of paintings in his case.
(c) The things the witnesses are saying about him.
(d) The amount of evidence against him.

3. How do people at the university feel about Montgomery?
(a) They hate him.
(b) They don't respect him.
(c) They adore him.
(d) They admire him.

4. Where do Montgomery and his wife sail after their marriage?
(a) The Mediterranean.
(b) Europe.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Italy.

5. What did Montgomery get every time he went to Dun Laoghaire as a child?
(a) A shilling.
(b) A book.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) A cookie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Montgomery's mother do that annoys him?

2. How did Montgomery meet his wife?

3. Who now has the missing items?

4. What does Montgomery buy at the hardware shop?

5. Montgomery comes back into the present to tell the courts about where he had gone that day. Where did he go?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would it be in Montgomery's benefit to keep information on Randolph to blackmail him?

2. What is the irony about Montgomery meeting his wife through Anna Behrens?

3. What reasoning would Montgomery have for comparing Anna Behrens to a "lonely prisoner in her magic castle in need of rescuing"?

4. Why does Montgomery feel the need to describe his mother as "statuesque"?

5. Montgomery has the feeling he is about to do something very bad. Why is this ironic?

6. Why does Montgomery feel it's necessary to share his dreams with the court?

7. Why are the details of Montgomery's engagement and marriage to Daphne important?

8. Do you think the fight between Montgomery and his mother was solely based on the selling of the paintings?

9. When thinking about first meeting Daphne, Montgomery says "Anna was the priestess in a ritual giving Daphne, the sacrificial offering, to him." Why does he say this?

10. Explain the symbolism of Montgomery's recurring dreams about his father.

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