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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How quickly do Robert, Mary and Colin drink their first bottle of wine?
(a) In ten minutes
(b) In thirty minutes
(c) In twenty minutes
(d) Over the course of an hour

2. What circumstance seems to set an ominous tone for the evening for Mary?
(a) The ambivalence she feels towards Colin.
(b) The argument that they had earlier in the day.
(c) The uneventful nature of their love making.
(d) The lateness of their leaving the hotel.

3. What is Robert's opinion of Italian feminists?
(a) They are more sympathetic than English feminists.
(b) They are too radical.
(c) They want to destroy relationships between men and women.
(d) They are too beautiful to love.

4. Why do Mary and Colin leave their hotel room after making love?
(a) They must head home after their vacation.
(b) They are going to a bar.
(c) They are convinced they can find an open restaurant for dinner.
(d) They are planning on moving to another hotel.

5. How does Mary respond at first to Colin's sexual advances?
(a) She tells him to wait until after dinner.
(b) She becomes enraged.
(c) She ignores them.
(d) She eagerly embraces them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mary believe that the feminist posters suggest rapists should be castrated?

2. Why are Mary and Colin not speaking to each other at the beginning of the novel?

3. Where do Mary and Colin meet Robert?

4. What does Mary note about the water in Venice?

5. Where are Mary and Colin vacationing?

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