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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. How are the rest of the children behaving?
(a) They are running around the flat.
(b) They are sitting out front.
(c) They are playing games.
(d) They are behaving well.

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

3. What does Annabel say to an interviewer about scarves?
(a) Annabel says that she likes pastel colored scarves.
(b) Annabel says that she has lost many friends.
(c) Annabel says her friends don't bring her scarves from theri holidays anymore.
(d) Annabel says that she prefers cotton scarves to any other kind.

4. When Annabel realizes the new visitors after the party were the doctor and his wife, what happens?
(a) Annabel apologizes for Frederick's absence.
(b) The doctor's daughter starts to cry.
(c) The doctor says that she needn't apologize.
(d) Annabel apologizes for calling them out.

5. What happens after the party when everyone leaves and Annabel turns out the light?
(a) The doorbell rings and then Billy opens the door with his key.
(b) Annabel tells people without really seeing them, that they had to leave.
(c) She runs back into the apartment.
(d) She closes the door in Billy's face and tells him to go.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frederick react when Annabel decides they should have a baby?

2. What unusual event happens outside of Annabel's flat at 6:30 p.m.?

3. How well does Annabel speak Italian?

4. When Annabel Makes the film "Minerva Arrives at Platform 10," what does the public call her?

5. What happens with the doctor's outspoken daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Frederick, always keeping in the back of his mind the idea of leaving Annabel, had taken a mistress and in Chapter III, we learn that he is constantly going away. How is Annabel managing her private life?

2. In Chapter IV, when Annabel is taken to view the body, the doctors and nurses who escort her being to speak rapidly in Italian and she realizes they are trying to console her. How does she react?

3. What was the difference between the way that Annabel and Frederick viewed acting?

4. The doctor's wife is surprised that Annabel is taking her baby into the press conference. How does she interact with Annabel?

5. In Chapter 4, the neighbors have brought in chairs for everyone to sit. How are the chairs arranged and where does Annabel sit?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. Frederick's longtime friend, Billy O'Brien, came in and out of their lives, usually needing a loan. How did Annabel ensure that Frederick would come to Rome with her?

9. Frederick thought his wife was superficial. He wanted to know if when she was acting she ever felt the part from deeply inside. How did Annabel respond to that?

10. As more and more people came into her flat, for the party she hadn't known about, Annabel wondered what she should do. Why didn't she just send them all away?

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