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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. What does the young wife decide the house needs?
(a) Lights! More lights
(b) Love! More love
(c) People
(d) A swimming pool

2. What kind of meal do they have for dinner?
(a) Korean
(b) Sushi
(c) Chinese
(d) Mexican

3. What brings the young wife back to her senses?
(a) Her husband snoring
(b) The ring of the telephone
(c) A roll of thunder
(d) A fire

4. How many secrets does the husband say a man must have from his wife?
(a) Two
(b) Three
(c) One
(d) None

5. What opera does the husband take the young wife to see?
(a) The Magic Flute
(b) Faust
(c) Tristan
(d) Cats

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only thing the young wife says she can manage on the piano?

2. What does the young wife see on the opera singers throat?

3. What does the young wife say is bad about the passage?

4. What had the young wife's mother disposed of on her eighteenth birthday?

5. What does the young wife say her husband's chuckle sounds like?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think the husband tries to tempt his young wife with the small key?

2. In what way does the Marquis show shame at what he has done?

3. Why do you think the young wife does not tell anyone what happened, but instead accepts the gossip?

4. Describe the marquis.

5. Do you think Carter represents the Marquis as unstable and crazy or just plain evil?

6. Why do you think the young wife is so quick to call the piano tuner her young lover?

7. Why does the girl decide to enter the private room?

8. Why do you think music is so important to the young wife?

9. Do you think the Marquis is a conventional murderer in term of literature?

10. Why is it significant that the Marquis smells of Russian leather?

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