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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Interlude: The Threatened Animal.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Edith at the end of Part II, Chapter 8?
(a) She divorces Maurice.
(b) She is taken into surgery.
(c) Her life support is removed.
(d) She wakes up.

2. According to Maurice, which of Gore's novels had he planned to read on the flight to Italy?
(a) Julian.
(b) The City and the Pillar.
(c) Myra Breckinridge.
(d) Burr.

3. Erich's most recent novel won which prestigious award?
(a) The Prize.
(b) The Award.
(c) The Crown.
(d) The Palm.

4. According to Gore, what would have happened had he allowed himself to be seduced by Maurice?
(a) He would have fallen in love with Maurice.
(b) He would have been miserable.
(c) His life would have taken a bad turn.
(d) He would have hurt his friend.

5. Erich is delivering a lecture on what subject when a reporter interrupts his class?
(a) Thomas Hardy.
(b) George Eliot.
(c) Anthony Trollope
(d) Wilkie Collins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edith discover about herself in Part II, Chapter 7?

2. According to Edith in Part II, Chapter 2, what does Robert want from her?

3. With whom has Maurice been having an affair, as he tells Edith in Part II, Chapter 7?

4. According to Maurice in the second interlude, from where did Henry Rowe come?

5. What controversial book was Oskar reading when he and Erich first met?

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