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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charles thrust into Hartley's hand when he finally leaves the home she and Fitch share?
(a) A letter
(b) A book
(c) A ring
(d) A bottle of wine

2. Charles begins to wonder if Hartley married and stayed with Fitch because she found him __________ attractive.
(a) Emotionally
(b) Dramatically
(c) Financially
(d) Sexually

3. Fitch threatens to kill ____________ if he comes around the house again.
(a) Gilbert
(b) James
(c) Peregrine
(d) Charles

4. Charles now realizes that he has always been in love with his own _______________.
(a) Heart
(b) Talent
(c) Promise
(d) Youth

5. Whose death has left everyone in the house in a daze at the start of this chapter?
(a) Peregrine
(b) James
(c) Titus
(d) Charles

6. Who is the first of many visitors that Charles has the next day after talking with Hartley?
(a) Rosina
(b) Gilbert
(c) Lizzie
(d) Fitch

7. Charles says that the ____________ is the only part of his life with any meaning and that he wants to wait for Hartley.
(a) House
(b) Past
(c) Present
(d) Future

8. What does Charles want Titus to consider him, though he has said this before?
(a) His uncle
(b) A friend
(c) His brother
(d) His son

9. Hartley insists that all she wants to do the first night he is with Charles is ____________.
(a) Sleep
(b) Watch the water
(c) Make love
(d) Swim

10. Who does Fitch recognize in the group from his days in the army?
(a) Peregrine
(b) James
(c) Gilbert
(d) Rosina

11. At this point of the book, Charles decides he is no longer writing a ____________, but rather a memoir.
(a) Treaty
(b) Essay
(c) Diary
(d) Thesis

12. What does Charles decide he has to prepare for as he heads out for the invited event?
(a) Hartley living with him.
(b) Hartley being dead.
(c) Fitch killing him.
(d) Fitch giving up Hartley.

13. Fitch thought Hartley would be pleased by the ______________ he brought home for her.
(a) Cat
(b) Dog
(c) Television
(d) New couch

14. ______________ is murdered for his political/theatrical activism, Charles shares with the reader.
(a) Gilbert
(b) Peregrine
(c) James
(d) Titus

15. Charles reveals that he is _______________ every night at this point of his story and recollections.
(a) Writing
(b) Lonely
(c) Not sleeping
(d) Getting drunk

Short Answer Questions

1. _______________ is almost catatonic with fear and with tension, according to Charles.

2. ___________ says that sometimes things need to be simply allowed to happen, in a calm and resigned way.

3. Peregrine refers to Charles as a withered __________________, and that he would not be anything without the help of Clement.

4. Charles still believes that James and Hartley are ____________ him.

5. Who decides to spend their time stocking the pantry when they are at Charles's home?

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