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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mr. Wilkins' profession?
(a) He is a teacher.
(b) He is a doctor.
(c) He is a businessman.
(d) He is a lawyer.

2. How does Mrs. Arbuthnot ease her guilt over the source of her husband's income?
(a) She runs a social club for women.
(b) She writes letters to the editor.
(c) She helps and donates to the poor.
(d) She volunteers at an animal shelter.

3. What do the two women do for the first time at the villa at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Call each other by their first names.
(b) They each share a secret they never told anyone before.
(c) They sing.
(d) They show their faces without make-up.

4. What had "faded to the dimness of a dream" by the time the women arrived in Italy in Chapter 4?
(a) Their aggression and angst from before.
(b) Their lives back in England.
(c) Their worries and guilt.
(d) Their husband's faces.

5. What does Lady Caroline's grace, beauty and nature allow her to be?
(a) Standoffish and still charming.
(b) Quite ditzy without ever being considered stupid.
(c) Snobbish without offending anyone.
(d) As silly as she wants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lady Caroline find strange in Chapter 10?

2. What does Mr. Briggs telegram say in Chapter 17?

3. Where does Mrs. Arbuthnot go to wait for dinner in Chapter 20?

4. What does Mrs. Arbuthnot playfully remind Mrs. Wilkins of in Chapter 6?

5. When Lady Caroline meets Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Arbuthnot for the first time, what does she suggest they do?

(see the answer key)

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