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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 revelation does Dee come to after she takes a nap in the afternoon?
(a) The painting was hidden behind another painting.
(b) The priest was hiding something from her.
(c) Modigliani was a Jew.
(d) The proprietor knew something he did not tell her.

2. What does Peter take from the supply room at Meunier's?
(a) Expensive pens.
(b) Forms.
(c) A rubber stamp and headed paper.
(d) Paper clips.

3. Who comes up to Lampeth at the gallery reception and feigns being Lampeth's friend?
(a) An art dealer.
(b) Peter Usher.
(c) Peter Usher's wife.
(d) Jack.

4. What is Dee doing in Paris?
(a) Visiting her friend, MIke.
(b) Studying art.
(c) Simply enjoying the things that she likes.
(d) Spending the summer with her brother, MIke.

5. What does Peter Usher go to see Mr. Dixon about?
(a) Showing Peter's work in his gallery.
(b) Finding out gossip about Lampeth.
(c) Commissioning Peter for a painting.
(d) Selling one of Peter's paintings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they all do once the policeman leaves Peter's house?

2. Whose paintings does Peter take to Mr. Meunier's office?

3. What does Julian suggest that Sarah do in order for her to get money to give to him?

4. What is the subject of the painting of the contest between Peter and Mad Mitch?

5. What surprising statement does Samantha give Jimmy when he comes for an interview?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is mystery set up almost immediately?

2. Who is Anita and how does she play a part in the decisions that Samantha is about to make?

3. After leaving Dee's apartment, where does Lipsey trace her to and what does he discover there?

4. Whose names does Mitch use to set up the bank accounts he and Peter will need? Why does he choose these names?

5. How does Lipsey fail in getting information from the old man who knew Modigliani and who had given information to Dee?

6. Why does Peter Usher become so upset with Charles Lampeth at the reception?

7. What point does Samantha attempt to make about the movies she has made and the movies that she wants to make?

8. How does the novel open? What characters are introduced? Where are they? Why are they there? What set-up is given right away about Dee and her future?

9. How does the reader know right away that Tom is going to be trouble for Samantha?

10. What will Anne's role be in the forgery scam?

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