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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Elgin worried about after he learns the truth?
(a) Jacqueline hurting Louise.
(b) The narrator moving in with them.
(c) Louise falling in love with the narrator.
(d) Louise leaving him.

2. Which of the following best describes the narrator when he or she is in a relationship with Jacqueline?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Excited.
(c) Angry.
(d) Passionate.

3. How does the narrator feel about one day marrying Louise?
(a) The narrator wants to marry Louise.
(b) The narrator fears marrying Louise.
(c) The narrator does not believe in any marriage.
(d) The narrator thinks Louise has more to benefit from marriage than the narrator does.

4. Why is the narrator dating Jacqueline?
(a) The narrator wants to get revenge on Jacqueline.
(b) The narrator feels bad for her.
(c) The narrator loves her.
(d) The narrator wants to avoid getting hurt.

5. What type of woman is the narrator known to seek out?
(a) Married women.
(b) Angry women.
(c) Shy women.
(d) Educated women.

6. How does Louise react to the narrator's act of violence?
(a) She is hurt.
(b) She is angry.
(c) She is scared.
(d) She is excited.

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

8. When the narrator goes on a first date with Louise, who is he or she supposed to spend the night with?
(a) Elgin.
(b) Jacqueline.
(c) Bruno.
(d) Inge.

9. Why does the narrator tell so many women that he or she loves them?
(a) The narrator enjoys deceit.
(b) The narrator genuinely loved them.
(c) It is easy for the narrator.
(d) The narrator loves all women.

10. What explains Louise's easy affection for the narrator?
(a) Her relationship with herself.
(b) Her relationship with her father.
(c) Her relationship with Elgin.
(d) Her relationship with Jacqueline.

11. Which lover told the narrator that the past no longer existed in their love?
(a) Bathsheba.
(b) Jacqueline.
(c) Inge.
(d) Louise.

12. What does Elgin ask Louise after he learns the truth?
(a) If she will move out of the house.
(b) If she will divorce him.
(c) If she will have a child with him.
(d) If she will move away with him.

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

14. Who does Jacqueline lock out of her apartment?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Bathsheba.
(c) Louise.
(d) Elgin.

15. Which of the following is Louise's goal?
(a) To be with the narrator.
(b) To pursue a dream career.
(c) To escape her boring and unromantic life.
(d) To get away from Elgin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Louise invite the narrator to go together alone?

2. Which character is the biggest representation of foreshadowing?

3. Which character is foreshadowed to be the "villain"?

4. How does the narrator view Jacqueline?

5. Which of the following literary devices most accurately describes Jacqueline's anger?

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