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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. According to Strane on page 178, what is the only way for Vanessa to have a successful future?
(a) He must remain a secret.
(b) He must remain calm.
(c) He must remain innocent.
(d) He must remain aloof.

2. According to Strane on page 146, what is responsible for the increasing number of allegations against him?
(a) Hysteria.
(b) Disinformation.
(c) Neuroses.
(d) Delirium.

3. What is the first name of Mr. Strane, the teacher who is being accused of assault at the start of the novel?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Jonathan.
(c) Justin.
(d) James.

4. What does Vanessa tell her ex-boyfriend about the allegations against Strane?
(a) That she is unable to think about them.
(b) That she can corroborate them.
(c) That she feels they are not true.
(d) That she feels they are true.

5. How did the freelance journalist receive Vanessa’s name, as she explains on page 112?
(a) From a relation of Vanessa's.
(b) From one of Vanessa's old friends.
(c) From an anonymous source.
(d) From a former teacher at Browick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vanessa think about her memories from high school, as she reveals on page 7?

2. How does Vanessa feel after learning the charges against Strane have been dropped on page 108?

3. For what does Strane admonish an adult Vanessa on page 56?

4. According to Strane on page 106, why have the charges against Strane been dropped?

5. What is Strane unable to handle, as he explains on page 140?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who testifies to Mrs. Giles that Strane and Vanessa have been having an affair? How does Vanessa respond?

2. Whose poetry does Strane give Vanessa to read while she is still his student? What is the effect of this poetry on Vanessa?

3. Who speaks with Vanessa during the field trip to Quebec and what does this person tell her?

4. Who is Dolores Haze and what does she represent to Vanessa, as explained on page 76?

5. What does Vanessa tell her mother about Jacob on page 135, and how does her mother respond?

6. What odd request does Strane make a Vanessa on page 133? How does she respond?

7. Who is Ruby and what does she and Vanessa discuss about abusers on page 9?

8. Why does Jenny approach Vanessa in the winter of their sophomore year? How does Vanessa respond?

9. What happens during the field trip to see Andrew Wyeth’s home? Who witnesses this interaction?

10. What strange gift does Strane give to Vanessa when she first goes to visit him at his house?

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