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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 are Mary and Colin searching for in the morning?
(a) Food and water
(b) Robert's apartment
(c) Their clothing
(d) The police

2. Who is the only person who is kind to Robert after the incident in the study?
(a) His father
(b) The maid
(c) His mother
(d) Maria

3. What does Robert do to encourage Mary and Colin to return to the bar?
(a) He invites them back the next night.
(b) He gives them a box of matches with the name and address of the bar on it.
(c) He pays for their drinks.
(d) He offers to bring his wife with him next time.

4. How do Robert's sisters attempt to embarrass him in front of Caroline?
(a) They tell her Robert is actually a girl.
(b) They tell her that Robert sleeps with his mother.
(c) They tell her about the incident with the oily medicine and the sweets.
(d) They tell her that Robert cannot speak English.

5. What causes Mary and Colin to begin telling Robert about themselves?
(a) The atmosphere in the bar
(b) Robert's warm demeanor
(c) Drinking wine
(d) Robert's prying questions

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Robert's mother leave a glass of water in his room at night?

2. What topic most often consumes Mary's dreams while on vacation?

3. What did Robert do that made his sisters hate him?

4. Where is Robert's wife originally from?

5. What event becomes a part of each of Mary and Colin's days while on vacation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Mary and Colin looking for as they journey through the city? Why?

2. What information about the bar does Caroline share with Mary? How does Mary react?

3. What does Robert offer Mary and Colin at the end of the chapter? How do they react? How does Robert counteract?

4. What do Robert's sisters feed him one afternoon? Why?

5. Describe Mary and Colin's experience outside of the hospital.

6. Where does Robert take Mary and Colin to eat? Describe this setting.

7. Describe the setting around the tourist attraction clock tower.

8. Describe the scene involving the older tourists that Colin observes from his balcony. How does the version of the story Colin tells Mary differ from the actual situation?

9. What does Mary tell Colin she dreams about during their daily naps?

10. Why does Caroline lock Mary and Colin's clothes in a cabinet?

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