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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 did Harry tell Marcus is the single most important thing he could teach him?
(a) The importance of knowing how to fall.
(b) Take plenty of walks on the beach.
(c) Choose your words very carefully.
(d) You have to be disciplined to be a writer.

2. How did Tamara Quinn first treat Harry when he came to Somerset in 1975?
(a) With suspicion.
(b) With reverence and deference.
(c) With contempt.
(d) With fear.

3. What changed Robert Quinn's impression of Harry Quebert?
(a) The two men bonded over their love of literature.
(b) The two men went bowling together.
(c) The two men discovered the both loved tacos.
(d) The two men had a relaxed conversation about cars.

4. Where did Harry tell Marcus he had hidden his incriminating documents and photos?
(a) Under the floorboards of his house.
(b) In side a valuable book.
(c) In a safe deposit box in a bank.
(d) In his gym locker in Montburry.

5. Where did Harry take Jenny where they bumped into Nola and Nola ran out, very upset?
(a) The pizza restaurant.
(b) The gala.
(c) The bowling alley.
(d) The movies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main job that Luther Caleb did for Elijah Stern?

2. Why did Nola try to kill herself?

3. What event led to Harry being arrested in 2008?

4. What was the first event Nola asked Harry to attend?

5. What is the name of Marcus's secretary?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Marcus decide to write a book about Harry and Nola's relationship and Nola's murder after insisting he would not?

2. How did Harry meet Nola?

3. What crucial piece of information did Nola's friend Nancy Hattaway tell Marcus that resulted in a critical misunderstanding later in the book?

4. What did Harry tell Marcus is the only way to know if he really loved someone?

5. Why did Harry tell Marcus to write only fiction?

6. Why did Marcus think that Nola had been having an affair with Elijah Stern?

7. What did Marcus's publisher, Roy Barnaski, tell Marcus he wanted his book about Harry to include more of?

8. What did Harry Quebert tell Marcus about the first chapter of a book?

9. Why did David Kellergan tell Marcus he always listens to music in his garage so loudly?

10. Marcus asked Harry how he will know he is a writer. What did Harry tell him?

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