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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following describes Jacqueline's allure to the narrator?
(a) Simple.
(b) Sensitive.
(c) Sick.
(d) Passionate.

2. 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.

3. What actually causes Elgin to show emotion?
(a) Louise's diagnosis.
(b) The narrator's love for Louise.
(c) Louise's affair.
(d) The death of his father.

4. Where does the narrator go in an attempt to find comfort in the countryside?
(a) Church.
(b) Psychiatrist.
(c) Graveyard.
(d) Group therapy.

5. What does the narrator begin to find comfort in while living in the countryside?
(a) Books.
(b) Bartending.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character would be considered to be the most heroic in the novel?

2. How does the narrator describe having an affair?

3. Where do Louise and the narrator go together on vacation?

4. What does the narrator hope that Elgin can do when he moves away?

5. Which of the following did Inge actively object to?

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