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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Arbuthnot imagine will happen when she and her husband are old?
(a) They will realize they should never have married.
(b) They will grow even more apart.
(c) They will die at around the same time.
(d) Happiness will come.

2. What does Mrs. Arbuthnot realize about both she and Mrs. Wilkins in Chapter 1?
(a) They are both miserable.
(b) They are both happy in their marriages.
(c) They are both lost.
(d) They are kindred spirits.

3. What does Mrs. Fisher contemplate at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) How she feels even older on the inside.
(b) How the past has more value than the present.
(c) How all her friends have died or abandoned her.
(d) How the years have past like a whisper.

4. What is the only word that the women can understand from the Italian man in Chapter 5?
(a) "Buon giorno".
(b) "Aprile".
(c) "San Salvatore".
(d) "Grazie".

5. What is Mrs. Arbuthnot described as in Chapter 1?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Talkative.
(c) Practical.
(d) Mysterious.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Arbuthnot forget about their argument in Chapter 8?

2. For what did Mrs. Arbuthnot marry?

3. What does Mrs. Arbuthnot feel she will have to do with Mrs. Wilkins at the villa in Chapter 3?

4. What does Mrs. Fisher receive two plates of in Chapter 9?

5. What does Lady Caroline tell Costanza in Chapter 8?

(see the answer key)

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