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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Abstracts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the young wife telephone?
(a) Her mother
(b) Her lover
(c) Her best friend
(d) Her husband

2. What spatters through the drawn blinds of the railway compartment?
(a) Blood
(b) A ray of the sun
(c) A starburst of lights
(d) A splinter of the moon

3. What do they say doomed the Romanian wife?
(a) Absinthe
(b) Love
(c) Marriage
(d) Heroin

4. What does the young wife decide to do to keep her husband away?
(a) Lock the doors
(b) Call the police
(c) Sing
(d) Play the piano

5. Why does the young wife think the husband has left her for a mistress?
(a) She is ugly
(b) She didn't compliment his beard
(c) She is boring
(d) She knows how to please him

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country does the story take place?

2. What animal does the young wife say she shudders like?

3. Who does the young see in the iron maiden?

4. What does the wife say is the source of her husband's Russian leather odor?

5. What does the young wife blame for the piano being out of tune?

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