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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 Mrs. Arbuthnot ask guidance from God for in Chapter 2?
(a) How to avoid Mrs. Wilkins.
(b) Whether or not she should even hope that the holiday will become reality.
(c) Of whether she should stay with her husband.
(d) How to overcome a recent death in the family.

2. How much is the rent for the Italian villa?
(a) Eighty pounds.
(b) One hundred pounds.
(c) Sixty pounds.
(d) Forty-five pounds.

3. Who interrupts Lady Caroline after Costanza does in Chapter 8?
(a) Domenico.
(b) Marco.
(c) Leonardo.
(d) Rico.

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

5. What did Lady Caroline and Mrs. Fisher feel they had the right to when they arrived at the house?
(a) The use of the restrooms first.
(b) The first pick of reading materials.
(c) To choose the menu.
(d) The best rooms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Wilkins notice Mrs. Arbuthnot doing in Chapter 1?

2. Where is Mrs. Wilkins at the beginning of the novel?

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

4. What does Lady Caroline's grace, beauty and nature allow her to be?

5. What do the two women do for the first time at the villa at the end of Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lady Caroline think of Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Arbuthnot?

2. How does the Italian scenery affect Mrs. Arbuthnot and Mrs. Wilkins?

3. Why does Mrs. Fisher ask for references in Chapter 3? How do Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Arbuthnot react to this?

4. Who is the owner of the Italian villa and what does the leasing process entail?

5. What do Costanza and Domenico want from Lady Caroline in Chapter 8?

6. Who do Mrs. Arbuthnot and Mrs. Wilkins become increasingly uneasy about the trip in Chapter 4?

7. How do the two women go about finding other guests for their villa retreat? Why do they want to find more women?

8. What do Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Arbuthnot think of Lady Caroline's beauty in Chapter 6?

9. What does Mrs. Wilkins do in Chapter 9 that annoys Mrs. Fisher?

10. Why does Mrs. Arbuthnot believe that she and Mrs. Wilkins should be running things at San Salvatore?

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