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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which character is the symbol of mistrust in the novel?
(a) Louise.
(b) Elgin.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Jacqueline.

3. Who promises to keep the narrator informed about Louise's condition?
(a) Elgin.
(b) Louise.
(c) Jacqueline.
(d) Louise's doctor.

4. Which of the following types of love is a theme in the novel?
(a) Love without commitment.
(b) Love without gender.
(c) Love without pain.
(d) Love without location.

5. Which of the following describes the time Louise and the narrator lived together?
(a) Intense fury.
(b) Fear.
(c) Bliss.
(d) Timidity.

6. Upon moving, why does the narrator begin studying?
(a) To tell Louise's story.
(b) To begin working on translations again.
(c) To reveal Elgin as a fraud.
(d) To know what Louise is going through.

7. Who tells the narrator that he or she made a mistake in trusting Elgin?
(a) Louise.
(b) The narrator's boss.
(c) Elgin's father.
(d) Jacqueline.

8. What happens to the handcuff key?
(a) It gets thrown away.
(b) Somebody leaves with it.
(c) Somebody maliciously hides it.
(d) It is pushed out of reach.

9. What can the reader infer about Elgin before the narrator moves?
(a) Elgin wants to get revenge for the narrator's indiscretion.
(b) Elgin would like the narrator to die.
(c) Elgin loves Louise despite everything.
(d) Elgin would like to kill Louise.

10. What does the narrator hope that Elgin can do when he moves away?
(a) Take Louise somewhere she can be happy.
(b) Learn to show emotion for Louise.
(c) Cure Louise's cancer.
(d) Get Louise psychiatric help.

11. What bill does the narrator pay for a full year before moving?
(a) Water.
(b) Apartment rent.
(c) Internet.
(d) Electricity.

12. At whose house do the narrator and Louise carry on an affair?
(a) Elgin's.
(b) Jacqueline's.
(c) The narrator's ex-lover's.
(d) Elgin's parent's.

13. Which pairing of characters has the most sexual tension?
(a) The narrator and his or her boss.
(b) Elgin and the narrator.
(c) Louise and Jacqueline.
(d) Louise and the narrator's boss.

14. How long do Louise and the narrator live together?
(a) Days.
(b) Weeks.
(c) Years.
(d) Months.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who decided they had to be the one to walk away concerning Louise's illness?

2. Where does Elgin want Louise to go for treatment?

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

4. Whose mother does the narrator visit in search of Louise?

5. Which of the following shows how the narrator has grown from the beginning of the novel to the end?

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