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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 changes Karl's life?
(a) Nothing yet.
(b) A spiritual teacher in France.
(c) His meeting with Mary.
(d) Seeing his best friend murdered.

2. What does Karl's landlady know about Karl just before his disappearance?
(a) That he was about to be married to a girl who is pregnant.
(b) That he was unhappy in Italy.
(c) That his mother wrote him recently and asked him to come home.
(d) That he had money when he left Peppitos.

3. What does Rowley insist that Mary do?
(a) Take a sleeping pill.
(b) Go to the hotel with him.
(c) Call Edgar.
(d) Call her lawyer.

4. What is Mary's first instinct to do about Karl?
(a) Set fire to the villa and make it look like a fire kills him.
(b) Call Edgar.
(c) Call the police.
(d) Drag his body out of the house.

5. What does Karl imply that Mary is?
(a) Confused.
(b) A temptress.
(c) Cruel.
(d) Nervous.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Rowley driving fast?

3. What frightens Mary?

4. What is Rowley's suggestion since Mary doesn't want to call the police?

5. About what is Rowley concerned?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Mary do that causes Karl to become even more angry and what is Karl's reply?

3. How does Mary appear as she leaves for the luncheon?

4. How does the altercation between Karl and Mary resolve itself?

5. What does Rowley ask for that upsets Mary?

6. What startles Mary soon after Karl kills himself?

7. What does the Princess say about the party from the previous evening?

8. How does Karl end up in a concentration camp and how does he get to Italy?

9. How does Mary feel about what Karl tells her about his life?

10. What does Rowley point out to Mary to reassure her?

(see the answer keys)

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