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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Louise's last name?
(a) Rosenthal.
(b) Roscoe.
(c) Roseburg.
(d) Rosperg.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Elgin's religion?

2. What part of art troubled Inge?

3. Where does Jacqueline work?

4. How does the reader perceive Jacqueline's anger?

5. Which lover told the narrator that the past no longer existed in their love?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator want Louise to treat their relationship?

2. What is Elgin's reaction to Louise having an affair?

3. What is Jacqueline's reaction to finding out about the narrator's affair with Louise?

4. What is the significance behind not knowing the name and gender of the narrator?

5. According to the narrator, why would Louise appreciate having an affair?

6. Why does Louise refuse the narrator's affection?

7. Does it make sense for Jacqueline to attack Louise? Is it consistent with her character?

8. According to the narrator, why do married women have affairs?

9. Describe Jacqueline.

10. By the end of the narrator's relationship with Jacqueline, does he or she still believe that marriage is the end of passion?

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