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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary learn from her lawyer?
(a) Her husband squandered all his money.
(b) Her grandfather left her a large estate.
(c) Her father left her a large estate.
(d) Her husband wants a divorce.

2. What city can Mary see from the terrace of the villa?
(a) Venice.
(b) Naples.
(c) Florence.
(d) Rome.

3. Why is Rowley Flint invited to the party?
(a) As a balance to the Princess's husband's taciturn nature.
(b) As a possible suitor for Mary.
(c) To even out the attendance after Edgar gave his regrets.
(d) Because he just arrived in Florence and is a childhood friend of the Princess.

4. Who is generally in good humor?
(a) Nina.
(b) The Princess.
(c) Edgar.
(d) Mary.

5. What did Mary know about that Matthew tried to hide?
(a) That he had a gambling problem also.
(b) His drinking in secret and affairs.
(c) That he had syphillis.
(d) That is inheritance was almost gone.

6. About what do Mary and Rowley speak at length?
(a) Rowley's home in the United States.
(b) Mary and Edgar and Mary's situation.
(c) Mary's father's architectural designs.
(d) Rowley's new business venture in Tuscany.

7. What is Mary's reply?
(a) She would consider it.
(b) She isn't over Matthew yet.
(c) She is not in love with him.
(d) She does not want to live in the United States.

8. When did Matthew change?
(a) When his brother is killed.
(b) When his sister dies.
(c) When his father disinherited him.
(d) When he was drinking.

9. What does Rowley ask Mary?
(a) If she plans to marry Edgar.
(b) Why she wants to marry Edgar so badly.
(c) If she wants to travel with him to the United States.
(d) If she plans to go ahead with her plans to return to England.

10. Of what is Colonel Trail very complimentary?
(a) Edgar's recent appointment.
(b) Mary's deceased father.
(c) The Princess's gown.
(d) Mary's deceased husband.

11. What is the amount most people give the entertainer?
(a) Nothing; he is paid by the hostess.
(b) Five or ten lira.
(c) At least fifty lira.
(d) He was such a poor musician, most only give him a lira or two.

12. Why does Mary say about Matthew Panton?
(a) He was misguided.
(b) She should not have married him.
(c) He was a good man.
(d) She had never been in love with him.

13. How does Mary respond to Edgar's question?
(a) She does not know the woman who Edgar plans to marry.
(b) She says she is not comfortable with his staying at the villa since she is alone.
(c) She asks for a few days to consider it.
(d) She says she is not ready to return to England.

14. Why is Mary Panton at the villa?
(a) To meet with her husband who has been conducting business nearby.
(b) To oversee its remodeling.
(c) For recuperation from emotional trauma.
(d) To visit her sister and her husband who rent the villa.

15. What does Mary extol?
(a) Her father's virtues.
(b) Edgar's virtues.
(c) Matthew's final days.
(d) Her father's architectural abilities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edgar give Ciro?

2. What does the Princess ask of Mary?

3. Who prompts Nina to remind Mary?

4. What does Mary ask Rowley to hand her from her purse?

5. About what did Mary and Matthew fight?

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