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

2. What does Mary learn when Edgar arrives?
(a) He has been knighted.
(b) He's been offered a position as governor of Bengal.
(c) He is dying.
(d) He is getting married to someone else.

3. What does Mary decide to give Karl as a gift?
(a) An old violin that has been in her family.
(b) A sexual encounter.
(c) A possible job with her father.
(d) Money to pay his rent.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what has Edgar proven himself?

2. What does Mary do on the way home?

3. What does Mary admit she came to feel?

4. What does Karl say he would like to do that night?

5. Who is generally in good humor?

Short Essay Questions

1. How long has Mary known Edgar and what was Mary's mother's opinion of the man?

2. What is Mary's response to Rowley's questions about Edgar and how does Rowley respond?

3. What happens to distress Mary about Matthew?

4. What does narration say of the villa in which Mary is staying?

5. What does Mary think of the Princess' comments on marriage to Edgar?

6. How does Mary meet Karl Richter?

7. How does Rowley find the handgun in Mary's purse and how does that change the conversation?

8. How does Mary end up driving Rowley to his hotel and what happens?

9. What does the Colonel think of Edgar's prospects in his career?

10. Why does the Princess choose the restaurant they are at for the party and how is she disappointed?

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