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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Which ex-lover seems to effect the narrator the most?
(a) Bathsheba.
(b) Igne.
(c) Bruno.
(d) Jacqueline.

7. Why did Elgin end up sending the narrator away?
(a) To get revenge.
(b) To hurt Louise physically.
(c) To make sure the narrator was being true to Louise.
(d) To have another chance with Louise.

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

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

10. Where do Louise and the narrator go together on vacation?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) France.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Mexico.

11. What does the narrator's boss urge him or her to do?
(a) Forget Louise entirely.
(b) Return to Jacqueline.
(c) Kill Elgin.
(d) Return to Louise.

12. What condition does Louise have?
(a) Bulimia.
(b) Bipolar disorder.
(c) Leukemia.
(d) Brain tumor.

13. Which of the following describes the narrator's plan to find Louise?
(a) The narrator will visit all the places the two of them went together.
(b) The narrator will wait at the hospital for her to come in.
(c) The narrator will hide out in their shared apartment.
(d) The narrator will stalk Louise's mother.

14. What does Louise say about seeking treatment?
(a) She needs it but has no money.
(b) She has already been in treatment.
(c) She needs it but would rather die.
(d) It's not necessary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following states does it seem that the narrator likes, becoming apparent after the narrator moves?

2. How long do Louise and the narrator live together?

3. What does Louise decide to do after the vacation?

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

5. Who convinces the narrator to leave Louise?

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