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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary say she would give Rowley if she could?
(a) An introduction to her sister.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A unique gift.
(d) A suitable wife.

2. What did Mary's mother point out to Mary when Mary was 19?
(a) That Edgar is a scoundrel.
(b) That Edgar is in love with her.
(c) That Edgar was too old for Mary and to stop flirting.
(d) That Edgar would be an advantageous catch.

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

4. Who prompts Nina to remind Mary?
(a) Ciro.
(b) Edgar.
(c) Mary.
(d) No one.

5. Who is Ciro?
(a) Mary's manservant.
(b) Edgar's driver.
(c) Mary's gardener.
(d) The neighbor.

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

7. Why does Rowley propose to Mary?
(a) He is a little drunk.
(b) He feels tender towards her.
(c) He has loved her from afar for several years.
(d) He needs a wife.

8. What does Mary think about on the way to the party?
(a) Her mother's vague allusions to health issues.
(b) How to maximize the little money she has remaining.
(c) Edgar's question.
(d) Her sister's pending divorce.

9. What is Mary doing at the opening of chapter 2?
(a) Getting ready to go to the party.
(b) Talking with her mother on the phone.
(c) Digging in the rosebushes.
(d) Napping.

10. What does Karl point out to Mary as they are driving to her villa?
(a) The lights of Florence.
(b) The full moon.
(c) A shabby house where he lives.
(d) The lights of Cannes.

11. In what century is the Tuscan villa built?
(a) 20th.
(b) 13th.
(c) 19th.
(d) 16th.

12. What does Mary ask Rowley to hand her from her purse?
(a) A pen and paper.
(b) A handkerchief.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A gas card.

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

14. What does Mary do with a hundred lira note?
(a) Leaves it in the ladies' room for the washerwoman.
(b) Tip the violinist.
(c) Ask Rowley to get her a cab as she is too tipsy to drive.
(d) Tip the valet.

15. What does Rowley find in her purse?
(a) The gun.
(b) A blackmail note.
(c) A picture of Matthew.
(d) A suicide note.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Colonel Trail very complimentary?

2. When did Matthew change?

3. For what is the Princess known?

4. Why does Karl Richter take the job at the restaurant as a violinist?

5. What does Mary learn from her lawyer?

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