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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Wilkins suggest she and Mrs. Arbuthnot do in Chapter 1?
(a) Have dinner with their husbands.
(b) Share the cost of renting the vacation home.
(c) Play some golf near Mrs. Wilkins' neighborhood.
(d) Start a new club.

2. According to Mrs. Wilkins at the train station, what does her husband have no right to do?
(a) See her off.
(b) Forgive her.
(c) Make her feel guilty.
(d) Follow her to Italy.

3. When Lady Caroline meets Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Arbuthnot for the first time, what does she suggest they do?
(a) Keep out of each others' way.
(b) Go for a walk in the garden.
(c) Eat breakfast.
(d) Tell each other about their lives.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mrs. Wilkins in Chapter 7, what is the only thing that Mrs. Fisher has to worry about?

2. What does Mrs. Arbuthnot believe her husband is too busy doing to notice her gone?

3. What is the weather like at the beginning of the novel?

4. What catches Mrs. Wilkins eye in the newspaper?

5. What does Mrs. Wilkins do before going to fetch Mrs. Arbuthnot in Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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