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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 does Robert use to critically injury Colin?
(a) A kitchen knife
(b) A gun
(c) One of his father's knives
(d) One of his father's razors

2. Where does Mary go one morning when she awakens before Colin?
(a) Back to England
(b) To the hotel's pontoon cafe
(c) To get him breakfast
(d) To Robert and Caroline's apartment

3. What does the "apelike" teenage boy spend his time doing while at the beach?
(a) Trying to impress Mary
(b) Trying to impress a girl in a somewhat aggressive manner
(c) Trying to impress a girl by being kind and gentlemanly
(d) Cajole the other boys into fighting with him

4. What delights Mary the most about swimming in the ocean?
(a) Its spaciousness.
(b) Its warmth.
(c) Its depth.
(d) Its salinity.

5. Why do Mary and Colin abandon the spot they initially choose to set up on at the beach?
(a) A father and son tell them they already have taken the spot.
(b) They do not have enough privacy.
(c) A family claims it is their regular location.
(d) They are bothered by a group of overzealous teenagers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary realize that frightens her?

2. What does Caroline implore Colin to do when he and Mary prepare to leave her home?

3. What does Caroline find "sweet" about Colin?

4. Who owned Robert's home before he and his wife moved there?

5. Why do Mary and Colin "sicken" when they use the word "relationship"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mary intend to do when she goes to the morgue? What does she do instead?

2. Describe the scene in the ocean involving Mary and Colin.

3. Why do Mary and Colin leave late for the beach? What is the motivation behind their change of plans?

4. Describe the process of Mary realizing that Colin was in the photograph at Robert's apartment

5. How does Colin's experience with Robert at the bar compare to Mary's experience with Caroline in the apartment?

6. According to Robert, how do the roles of men and women differ now from the time when his father was alive?

7. What do Robert and Caroline initially do to Colin? How does he prevent this?

8. Describe the two times that Mary and Colin discuss Robert's photograph of Colin in this chapter. How are they different?

9. What does Mary find in Robert and Caroline's bedroom? What is the source of this?

10. What does Colin confess to Mary as they are sitting on the beach? How does Mary react?

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