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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 notable about Caroline's demeanor when she invites Mary and Colin to dine with her and Robert?
(a) She is excessively polite.
(b) She seems as if she would rather they did not stay.
(c) She pleads for them to stay.
(d) She seems ambivalent about their presence in her home.

2. What information about Robert does Caroline share with Mary that surprises her?
(a) Robert owns the bar he took Mary and Colin to.
(b) Robert was adopted.
(c) Robert rarely invites guests to his home.
(d) Robert and Caroline are not married.

3. How does Caroline define love?
(a) Being willing to hurt yourself to demonstrate your love
(b) Being willing to allow the person you love to kill you
(c) Being willing to tell the one you love everything
(d) Being willing to kill someone who harms the one you love

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

5. Which of Caroline's character traits makes Robert fall in love with her?
(a) Her sympathy
(b) Her complacency
(c) Her sharp tongue
(d) Her beauty

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound awakens Mary and Colin each afternoon?

2. What does the couple do each evening on the balcony of their hotel room?

3. Why do Mary and Colin go to the hospital?

4. How does Robert first meet Caroline?

5. How does Mary characterize her relationship with Colin as she describes it to Caroline?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the notebook Mary keeps as a thirteen-year-old. Why is her mind drawn to this memory while vacationing?

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

4. How does Mary and Colin's relationship with the hotel maid change over the course of their vacation?

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

6. How does Mary react to Colin when he wears the dressing gown? How is this different from his own reaction?

7. What is unusual about Robert's interactions with Mary and Colin in this chapter?

8. How does Robert's father react to him soiling his study? How does this make Robert feel?

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

10. Why does Mary begin thinking of her children in this chapter? What does she wish she had done?

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