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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 Dirk do for a living?
(a) A writer.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A painter.

2. What does Strickland say he will do if Amy comes after him?
(a) Move country.
(b) Kill her.
(c) Change his hotel.
(d) Pretend not to know her.

3. Who is Strickland painting for two hundred francs?
(a) A plumber.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A writer.
(d) A doctor.

4. Where did the author travel to during the war?
(a) Peru.
(b) Tahiti.
(c) Indonesia.
(d) Iraq.

5. Why does Mrs. Strickland invite the author to the dinner party?
(a) Another guest has failed to turn up.
(b) She needs a writer there.
(c) She wants him to meet her husband.
(d) She needs him for own sanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Crabbe say Mrs. Stroeve occupies herself like all day?

2. What game does Amy say Charles is great at?

3. What does Stroeve draw on the blotting paper?

4. What park does the author cut across after leaving the Colonel?

5. What can Crabbe see Strickland doing as Stroeve left his apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Crabbe and Dirk get Strickland out of his apartment?

2. Why does Strickland say he is looking forward to painting the plumber?

3. How does Mrs. Strickland express her disgust for her husband by the way she brings up her daughter?

4. How does Dirk persuade Blanche to let Strickland stay?

5. How does Strickland try to keep himself alive?

6. How does Mrs. Strickalnd respond to the news that her husband wants to take up painting?

7. How does Dirk say he made a fool of himself in this section?

8. How does Mrs. Strickland help Crabbe?

9. How does Strickland deal with the prostitute in the restaurant?

10. How does Crabbe describe Strickland in Chapter 6?

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