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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the couple do each evening on the balcony of their hotel room?
(a) Share their dreams
(b) Make love
(c) Discuss their relationship
(d) Have a night cap before going to dinner

2. What sound awakens Mary and Colin each afternoon?
(a) The voices of sailors
(b) The motor of the hotel pontoon
(c) Tools clanking on barges
(d) Chirping birds

3. What topic most often consumes Mary's dreams while on vacation?
(a) Colin
(b) Her death
(c) Her children
(d) Her job

4. Where do Mary and Colin believe they will find an open restaurant at the end of the first chapter?
(a) On the other side of the city.
(b) Near the hotel.
(c) In the hotel.
(d) No where.

5. What impresses Mary about the women of Venice?
(a) Their radical, organized form of feminism
(b) Their commitment to the native culture of the area
(c) Their complacency
(d) Their subtle feminist beliefs

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following best describes the ritual Mary and Colin both go through each evening before leaving for dinner?

3. What is Robert's opinion of Italian feminists?

4. Why does Mary make the comment, "'Thank God I'm not a man'" when she, Colin and Robert enter the bar?

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

(see the answer key)

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