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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 141-190.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator compare his or her affair with Louise to?
(a) Other affairs the narrator has had.
(b) Other affairs Louise has had.
(c) High school relationships.
(d) A couple in therapy.

2. Who is Elgin arriving home with when the narrator sees him?
(a) A new woman.
(b) Jacqueline.
(c) Louise.
(d) His mother.

3. What location does the narrator call while looking for Louise and after returning from the countryside?
(a) An apartment in New York.
(b) A hospital in Amsterdam.
(c) A cancer research facility in Paris.
(d) A clinic in Switzerland.

4. According to the message of the story, what is love more than?
(a) Societal restrictions.
(b) Health.
(c) Pleasing everybody.
(d) Growing as a person.

5. Who does the narrator give the key to the handcuffs?
(a) A security guard.
(b) A librarian.
(c) A co-worker.
(d) A customer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it significant that Louise and the narrator go on vacation?

2. Who tells the narrator that he or she made a mistake in trusting Elgin?

3. What is Louise's last name?

4. What does the reader learn about the narrator over the course of the novel?

5. Which of the following becomes most important to the narrator by the end of the novel?

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