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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 87-139.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jacqueline provide most for the narrator?
(a) Sex.
(b) Cleaning and cooking.
(c) An appearance put on for family and friends.
(d) Companionship.

2. How does Elgin feel about Louise?
(a) He is ashamed of her.
(b) He wants to be with her even if he also has to be with the narrator.
(c) He loves her.
(d) He does not have any feelings for her.

3. How does the narrator view Elgin's attempts to get the narrator to move away?
(a) Elgin's hatred.
(b) The best in Elgin's nature.
(c) Elgin's selfishness.
(d) Elgin's pure love.

4. Which of the following describes Elgin and Louise's marriage?
(a) They lack physical affection.
(b) They lack compassion for anybody except themselves.
(c) They don't spend any time together anymore.
(d) They lack internal affection.

5. Which of the following states does it seem that the narrator likes, becoming apparent after the narrator moves?
(a) Being in love.
(b) Being on the road.
(c) Being safe.
(d) Being heartbroken.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Louise refuse to accept from the narrator?

2. Who does the narrator alert to help him or her out of handcuffs?

3. Which of the following is a theme in the novel?

4. What are the names of Elgin's parents?

5. According to the narrator, why do married women have affairs?

(see the answer key)

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