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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Decline.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alfred ask Bertha while they are walking?
(a) How she could love their father.
(b) Why she is planning on running away.
(c) How she could love Alfred.
(d) If she believes in being able to see the future.

2. What happens to Latimer's father shortly after Latimer's marriage to Bertha?
(a) He leaves the home to Bertha and Latimer and moves into a nursing home.
(b) His health begins to decline.
(c) He begins to spend more time with Latimer.
(d) He regrets the match he has made and drowns himself.

3. What does Latimer's father's secret help Latimer and Bertha to do?
(a) Start a family.
(b) Get the divorce they both want.
(c) Take their place in society.
(d) Run away and start a new life.

4. What is Latimer's first hatred?
(a) The doctor, Mr. Letherall.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His brother, Alfred.

5. What is Latimer's second psychic ability?
(a) Reading other people's thoughts.
(b) Ability to cure illnesses.
(c) Super strength.
(d) Ability to make others forget the past.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Latimer compare his arrival in Switzerland to?

2. Which character can see their own death?

3. How does Bertha treat Latimer in public?

4. What does Bertha believe would happen to Latimer once they were married?

5. Who is a poor orphan with a genius for medical studies and a passion for science?

(see the answer key)

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