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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 Karl's father do when the German troops march into the town?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Shoots himself.
(c) Runs away deserting the family.
(d) Shoots several German soldiers before they kill him.

2. What does Mary do at the end of the chapter?
(a) Takes a sleeping pill and falls off to sleep.
(b) Writes Edgar.
(c) Calls her lawyer.
(d) Has a big breakfast that Nina cooks.

3. Why does Rowley wish they had left the gun with Karl?
(a) To eliminate the risk of police finding it later.
(b) So it could not be traced to Mary.
(c) To make it look more like a suicide.
(d) So Rowley wouldn't have to worry about it later.

4. Where is Karl sent?
(a) To sabotage the Germans in Vienna.
(b) A concentration camp.
(c) To find a place for the refugees in France.
(d) To fight in Poland.

5. Why is there little blood to contend with?
(a) Karl shot himself in the perfect spot that causes little blood.
(b) It all leaked out on the bathroom floor which Mary mopped up while waiting for Rowley.
(c) There is lots of blood everywhere.
(d) Most of it has seeped inside of him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mary when she receives a telegram?

2. What does Karl's landlady know about Karl just before his disappearance?

3. What does Karl join?

4. What is the Princess going to do about getting Karl fired?

5. How has Mary's opinion changed of Rowley?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is said between Rowley and Mary about Edgar and Mary's possible marriage to him?

4. How does the situation between Mary and Karl start to deteriorate?

5. Why does Mary call Rowley?

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

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

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

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

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

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