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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. Where is Mrs. Wilkins at the beginning of the novel?
(a) At a women's club.
(b) At the park.
(c) At the supermarket.
(d) At the library.

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

3. What does Mrs. Arbuthnot playfully remind Mrs. Wilkins of in Chapter 6?
(a) That money can't buy happiness.
(b) That age is but a number.
(c) That beauty is temporary.
(d) That home is where the heart is.

4. Who meets the women in the courtyard of the castle in Chapter 5?
(a) Gino.
(b) Marco.
(c) Domenico.
(d) Alanzo.

5. How does Mrs. Wilkins know Mrs. Arbuthnot?
(a) She is her neighbor.
(b) Their husbands are colleagues.
(c) They went to school together.
(d) From church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Arbuthnot put all of her time and energy into doing?

2. What does Mrs. Wilkins suggest she and Mrs. Arbuthnot do in Chapter 1?

3. According to Mrs. Fisher, what is Lady Caroline able to do with the servants?

4. According to Mrs. Wilkins at the train station, what does her husband have no right to do?

5. Why does Mrs. Wilkins gasp when she looks out her window in Chapter 6?

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