View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best describes the narrator's sexual relationship with Jacqueline?
(a) Jacqueline does not want to have sex with the narrator.
(b) The narrator is not sexually attracted to Jacqueline.
(c) The narrator is passionate about Jacqueline.
(d) The narrator does not believe in sexual attraction.

2. Who did the narrator date immediately after Bathsheba?
(a) Jacqueline.
(b) Bruno.
(c) Louise.
(d) Inge.

3. Which of the following best describes Elgin's parents?
(a) Terrorists.
(b) Absent.
(c) Traditional.
(d) Spiteful.

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

5. How does Elgin feel about Louise?
(a) He wants to be with her even if he also has to be with the narrator.
(b) He is ashamed of her.
(c) He loves her.
(d) He does not have any feelings for her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Inge actively object to?

2. Which of the following is most comparable to Jacqueline?

3. What does the narrator tell Jacqueline that prompts a problem?

4. How does the reader view the narrator's relationship with Jacqueline?

5. Before learning the truth, what did Jacqueline think her relationship with the narrator was?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why can't Elgin work directly with patients?

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

4. According to the narrator, why wouldn't Jacqueline appreciate an affair?

5. Why doesn't the narrator leave Jacqueline for Louise?

6. What part does irony play in the novel?

7. How does the narrator look back at affairs?

8. Why did the narrator choose to stay with Jacqueline for a short while?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 739 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample