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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. When Julian arrives home after seeing Jack Best at the office, what does he find Sarah has done most of the day?
(a) Drink.
(b) Watch the gardener.
(c) Read.
(d) Clean.

2. How does Peter Usher react to the news that Lampeth gives him at the gallery reception?
(a) Peter is thrilled to get his work shown with Modigliani's.
(b) Peter is bothered that it will be shown in The New Room.
(c) Peter is disappointed.
(d) Peter is angry enough to cause a scene.

3. What had Modigliani done with most of his paintings that he painted while he was high?
(a) He burned them.
(b) He threw them in the trash.
(c) He gave them away.
(d) He sold them.

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. How does the baker look at the girl who comes in for fresh bread in the opening of the story?
(a) Hauntingly.
(b) Lustfully.
(c) Angrily.
(d) Suspiciously.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Dee in the opening of "Part II, Chapter 1"?

2. What does Peter believe about the artist and the collectors?

3. What does Peter Usher go to see Mr. Dixon about?

4. What does Charles Lampeth miss as he reflects about life after dinner at his friends?

5. What do the assistants wear at the Belgrave Art Gallery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Peter after the incident at Belgraves?

2. How does Lipsey make his way into Dee's apartment?

3. What information does the rabbi give Dee that will help her further her search?

4. Why does Julian decide to open an art gallery and what are his ideas concerning it?

5. What party do Samantha and Tom attend and what crucial event happens there?

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

7. What lecture does Peter give his art students and why?

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

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

10. Why does Julian blame his wife, Sarah, for his impotency?

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