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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Van's father offer to try to buy for him?
(a) A car.
(b) An airplane.
(c) A Manhattan apartment.
(d) Ardis Hall.

2. What doctor does Ada go to visit?
(a) A heart specialist.
(b) A gynecologist.
(c) An oral surgeon.
(d) A podiatrist.

3. Over the thirteen years preceding Aqua's death, how much does Van calculate that he's spent with her?
(a) About three weeks.
(b) About two years.
(c) About eighteen months.
(d) About nine months.

4. What is the "eremitic reality or collective dream" Van discusses in his dissertation called?
(a) Elysium.
(b) Alluvium.
(c) Arcadia.
(d) Terra.

5. How was Mr. Plunkett exposed at cheating at cards?
(a) He collapsed with heart problems, and his opponent searched his pockets.
(b) He was in a game with another card shark who spotted his tricks.
(c) He was stopped by a club owner, held down, and searched.
(d) His rooms were searched by the police while he was playing in a poker game.

6. What Russian writer is quoted in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Dostoyevski.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Chekhov.

7. What does Blanche tell Van?
(a) That Ada has slept with someone else.
(b) That the governess knows of Van and Ada's affair.
(c) That Lucette is planning to run away with him.
(d) That Marina is having an affair with Pedro.

8. What activity does Marina do out on the lawn?
(a) Tries on and chooses new shoes.
(b) Sorts her library books.
(c) Has her hair styled.
(d) Cooks breakfast.

9. At the table at Ardis Hall, who does Lucette sit between?
(a) Van and Marina.
(b) Marina and the governess.
(c) Ada and the governess.
(d) Ada and Van.

10. What structure catches fire and wakes nearly everyone in the house?
(a) A lighthouse.
(b) A barn.
(c) A gazebo.
(d) An outhouse.

11. What figures are prominent in Ada's early memories of learning about male anatomy and sex?
(a) A dock worker and a carriage driver.
(b) A visiting painter and a horse.
(c) A visiting parson and a caterpillar.
(d) A statue and a dog.

12. Where do Ada and Van go, where Van compares Ada's body to the girlish body of the past?
(a) A small island in Lake Ladore.
(b) The stables where the horses are kept.
(c) A mushroom cave behind a small wood.
(d) A tumbled down tower in a meadow.

13. What does Dack run through the house with?
(a) A bird he has caught in the garden.
(b) Clothes from Van's room.
(c) Cottonwool soaked with blood.
(d) A hambone from the kitchen.

14. Where is Van and Ada's first sexual encounter?
(a) In Van's room.
(b) In a pond.
(c) In an apple tree.
(d) In a cave.

15. What feature of Van's and Ada's is extremely similar?
(a) Their lips.
(b) Their hands.
(c) Their noses.
(d) Their eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marina have in her screwdrivers instead of orange juice?

2. Who shows Van around his aunt's house?

3. What does Bout comment is covered in dust?

4. When Van takes a walk after first arriving at Ardis Hall, who does he run into?

5. What question of Van's does Ada not answer in Chapter 12?

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