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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 happens with the doctor's outspoken daughter?
(a) She tells Annabel that it's sad that the baby is fatherless.
(b) She makes a nasty comment about Frederick's suicide.
(c) She runs out and some neighbors have to go and find her.
(d) She refuses to leave.

2. What is the name of the film Annabel is making?
(a) The Holiday in Rome.
(b) The House on the Piazza.
(c) The Light on the Plaza
(d) The Last Light of Peace.

3. Where is Annabel's big role being filmed?
(a) Rome.
(b) Spain.
(c) Sardinia
(d) Greece.

4. How disheveled is Annabel's flat after the party?
(a) A girl is sleeping off drugs in the bath room.
(b) Someone has scribbled on the kitchen wall.
(c) There is broken glass everywhere.
(d) Someone has been sick on the living room floor.

5. Why does Billy go back to Belfast?
(a) To work in his uncle's grocer shop.
(b) Frederick found out about Billy and Annabel.
(c) Because Annabel broke off their affair.
(d) To get some jobs related to the theatre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Annabel's thoughts while making her movies in Rome?

2. How does Frederick deal with Annabel's growing success?

3. What occurs when Annabel goes to identify Frederick's body?

4. How do people perceive Annabel's private life?

5. When Giorgio goes out, how are Annabel's neighbors arranged?

Short Essay Questions

1. Dr.Tommasi brings Annabel to her flat where the press is waiting for her. She tells the doctor she needs a half hour to see her baby and then she wants to see the press, but she wants all her neighbors to be with her. Why is Annabel asking for her neighbors to be with her?

2. Frederick and Anabel had a secret life in their minds, a life unknown to one another. What was this secret life?

3. What is the relationship of Billy O'Brien to the Christopher family?

4. The press entered the room in a rush and surged towards Annabel in Chapter 4. She sat among her neighbors who conveyed their sense of empathy and deep feeling for her loss, as Annabel blinked away her tears and looked warmly down at her baby. How did the press approach her? Was this an event staged by Annabel to control the damage Frederick had wrought?

5. Annabel was now the principal wage earner. Frederick's intellectual aspect and dignity were possible because of what Annabel earned. How did Frederick feel about this?

6. When the doorbell rings in Chapter 4, someone's son, directed by a note left for him by his mother, has come to Annabel's flat. How does he greet Annabel?

7. When Billy showed up unexpectedly at the party that Annabel had known nothing about, who did he bring with him?

8. When Frederick failed at acting, he turned to writing film scripts and had a number of small successes. What was the script that would bring fame to both of the Christophers?

9. The doctor gives Annabel two aspirins and a glass of warmed up wine. The leading neighbors of the palazzo, at the sight of the baby in Annabel's arms, get teary at the sight of Annabel's' tears. She is crying quite hard, when the child says something about how actresses can make themselves cry. What in the child's words brings back echoes of Frederick?

10. After everyone left the party, the flat was in a terrible mess, and Billy asked Annabel if he wanted him to come around in the morning to help her and Frederick clean up the mess. Did that mean that Billy didn't know anything of Frederick's whereabouts?

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