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

2. When styles of acting are discussed, what style does Annabel believe?
(a) Studying at a great drama school is most important.
(b) Great acting is the most important.
(c) Creating a role is most important.
(d) Camera poses are most important.

3. What are some of the views from Annabel's flat?
(a) The top of the Tivoli Fountain.
(b) The Spire of Notre Dame.
(c) The Dome of St.Peters and Castel Sant' Angelo.
(d) The Basilica of St. Peters.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe what first happens when everyone enters the flat.

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

3. What is Annabel's reason for seeing the press right away?

4. What does Luigi say to Annabel when they begin their filming?

5. How does Frederick feel about leaving Annabel?

Short Essay Questions

1. One afternoon as Annabel is waiting for Frederick, Billy O'Brien lets himself in with the key that Frederick had given to him. Billy is rude and arrogant and demands food, which Annabel prepares. Billy says that Frederick has threatened suicide and Annabel says he has done the same with her. Should they have taken his threats more seriously?

2. 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?

3. Despite Annabel's few unsuccessful calls to some friends, Billy was the one who got did get everyone to leave Annabel's flat and end the out of control party. What did Billy say to Annabel about Frederick not showing up at the party and how did he help Annabel?

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

5. "The House on the Piazza" did not garner great reviews for the film, but how did it help Annabel's acting career?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. Dr.Tommassi's child is very rude and not tactful. She makes some mean and penetrating comments. How does Annabel react?

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

10. 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?

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