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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 word is used to describe Annabel's eyes?
(a) Tawny.
(b) Amber.
(c) Smoky.
(d) Sparkling.

2. Where is Annabel's flat located?
(a) On the first floor of a 16th century palazzo.
(b) On the top floor of an early 1900s apartment house.
(c) On the thrid floor of an old stone house.
(d) On the ground floor of an old chateau.

3. What small parts does Annabel play before her role in the film in Rome?
(a) The typist who returns to the office and accidentally interrupts a fatal argument.
(b) The young girl who escapes from her abusive father.
(c) The nurse who administers the wrong medicine to a patient.
(d) The housemaid who runs off with the delivery boy.

4. Who does Annabel consider phoning for help to get rid of the people at the party?
(a) Billy's Eskimo friend.
(b) Her sister.
(c) The Ketners.
(d) Luigi.

5. What are the headlines Annabel thinks of when she hears of Frederick's death?
(a) Frederick Christopher leaves party because he is embarrassed.
(b) Frederick Christopher leaves party because of excessive guest drinking.
(c) Frederick Christopher dies during time of orgy at wife's flat.
(d) Frederick leaves unfaithful wife at wild orgy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frederick feel about leaving Annabel?

2. Who writes the film in which Annabel is to star?

3. When Annabel has her second affair, what nationality is the young man?

4. How well does Annabel speak Italian?

5. Before the press conference, which neighbor comes in and offers condolences to Annabel?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Until quite recently, how would people have described Annabel's physical appearance?

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

5. 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?

6. Annabel made a second film and then she was to make a next film. Rumors were that Frederick was to play a leading role. What actually happened to Frederick?

7. 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?

8. The last guest to come to Annabel's flat was Dr.Tommasi. Why was he there and how did Annabel receive the news he came to deliver?

9. 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?

10. 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?

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