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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 Mary force herself to do?
(a) Act naturally.
(b) Eat some breakfast.
(c) Bathe.
(d) Clean up a little blood remaining on the floor.

2. Who is Mary expecting shortly after receiving the telegram?
(a) The Princess.
(b) Edgar.
(c) Lord Seafair.
(d) Rowley.

3. What makes it easier to hide Karl's death?
(a) He is a foreigner.
(b) He has no family or friends to miss him.
(c) He has no identification.
(d) He did not tell his landlady where he was going.

4. Why does Mary think of the handgun in her purse?
(a) She feels suicidal for being so cruel to Karl.
(b) She forgot she has the handgun.
(c) She wonders if she could kill a man.
(d) She becomes frightened.

5. Where is Mary when she receives a telegram?
(a) Still at Villa Bolognese.
(b) Having dinner with Rowley.
(c) In the garden at her villa.
(d) Asleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Mary angry with Rowley after he leaves?

2. What changes Karl's life?

3. What does Mary tell Karl the reason she has sex with him?

4. What else does Mary have to consider about Karl's death?

5. What does Karl ask of Mary, which she says no to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What startles Mary soon after Karl kills himself?

2. What does Nina relate to Mary about what Nina learns from Agata?

3. What is the first way Rowley suggests they handle the situation and what is Mary's response?

4. What does Rowley advise Mary to do before he leaves early that morning?

5. What does Rowley ask for that upsets Mary?

6. What does Mary rush to her dresser to find and why?

7. Describe Karl's life in Austria.

8. Where does Mary go and why is she relieved when she arrives there?

9. Who wakes Mary and what does Mary tell the person?

10. What does the Princess learn about the violinist and what is her response?

(see the answer keys)

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