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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 Crabbe try to find on Tahiti?
(a) Strickland's paintings.
(b) Strickland's family connections.
(c) Strickland's biography.
(d) Strickland's wife.

2. Who does Crabbe lie awake thinking about at the beginning of Chapter 30?
(a) Mrs. Strickland.
(b) Strickland.
(c) Blanche.
(d) Dirk.

3. What does Strickland invite Crabbe to see?
(a) His pets.
(b) His apartment.
(c) His garden.
(d) His paintings.

4. What does Crabbe think of Strickland's paintings?
(a) Earthy and soulful.
(b) Beautiful and sensual.
(c) Sensationalist and exaggerated.
(d) Awkward and clumsy.

5. Why does Strickland say he can't go to Holland?
(a) He is going to London.
(b) He has been commissioned to paint a portrait.
(c) He has other fish to fry.
(d) He doesn't have the money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What island does Crabbe travel to fifteen years later?

2. What is Abraham's job in Egypt?

3. What does Nichols think Tough Bill will do as soon as he is out of hospital?

4. What does Crabbe think Dirk's mother has cheeks like?

5. What does Stroeve try to use to destroy the painting?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dirk want Crabbe to write Blanche a letter?

2. Why does Dirk refuse to go back to Holland?

3. How does Dirk try to win Blanche back?

4. Why does Crabbe feel guilty in this section?

5. How does Tiare like to help people?

6. What does Crabbe think about Blanche in this section?

7. How does Mrs. Strickland react to news about her husband?

8. What does Brunot remember about Strickland?

9. Why does Brunot think he and Strickland are alike?

10. What does Crabbe think about Strickland's paintings?

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