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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a theme in the novel?
(a) Anger.
(b) Morality.
(c) Sexual frustration.
(d) Finding love with somebody you previously hated.

2. How did Elgin's mother die?
(a) Gun injury.
(b) Car accident.
(c) Complications after surgery.
(d) Cancer.

3. After fighting with Jacqueline, what does the narrator do?
(a) Fights with a man outside.
(b) Visits an old lover.
(c) Wanders the streets.
(d) Calls Elgin on the phone.

4. After fighting with Jacqueline, who does the narrator go to?
(a) Bathsheba.
(b) Inge.
(c) Louise.
(d) Elgin.

5. Which character is foreshadowed to be the "villain"?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Louise.
(c) Elgin.
(d) Jacqueline.

6. Where does the narrator work?
(a) Zoo.
(b) Church.
(c) Library.
(d) School.

7. What did Bathsheba bring out most in the narrator?
(a) A sexual side.
(b) A bad side.
(c) A shy side.
(d) A philosophical side.

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

9. Which of the following literary devices most accurately describes Jacqueline's anger?
(a) Simile.
(b) Diction.
(c) Irony.
(d) Metaphor.

10. Which of the following types of literary devices are present in the novel?
(a) Anthromorphism.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Iambic Pentameter.
(d) Irony.

11. How does the narrator believe Louise feels about Elgin?
(a) Louise is in danger being with Elgin.
(b) Louise has affection for him.
(c) Louise feels passionately about him.
(d) Louise hates him.

12. According to the narrator, why do married women have affairs?
(a) Women are forced into marriage.
(b) Men are not able to please women.
(c) Long-term relationships are no longer possible.
(d) Relationships become boring.

13. What does the violence in the novel represent?
(a) Realism.
(b) Postmodernism.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Pessimism.

14. What is the narrator scared will happen if he or she reveals his or her true feelings to Louise?
(a) She will become too eager.
(b) She will benefit from not knowing.
(c) She will fear the narrator.
(d) She will be scared away.

15. When is Louise ready to hear that the narrator loves her?
(a) When the narrator means it.
(b) When Louise has left Elgin.
(c) When they live toether.
(d) When Jacqueline knows about the relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is most significant about the narrator?

2. What does Jacqueline provide most for the narrator?

3. What part of art troubled Inge?

4. Which opinion of the narrator's has changed?

5. What does Elgin ask Louise after he learns the truth?

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