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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 36 - 68.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feeling did L tell M he had from his early experience with death living near a slaughterhouse?
(a) Every day was to be cherished.
(b) Life was fleeting.
(c) He could not be destroyed.
(d) There was no point to life.

2. What disease does M think L's father died from?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Lung disease.

3. What did Tony and M do to prepare the second place for L's arrivals the first time he said he would come?
(a) Updated the plumbing.
(b) Filled the place with paints and canvases.
(c) Repainted the walls and waxed the floors.
(d) Stocked the fridge with his favorite foods.

4. What did M once see a musician who was staying in the second place to record bird songs doing?
(a) Frying eggs naked.
(b) Making love to a woman.
(c) Flapping around and pretending to be a bird.
(d) Talking to a bird as if it could understand.

5. Who does the narrator say she meant on a train at the start of the novel, which made the following years difficult?
(a) A thief.
(b) The devil.
(c) Her first husband.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far away is the harbor town where M and Tony need to pick up L?

2. What word does the narrator use to describe the writer with whom she spent her last night in Paris?

3. What word does the narrator use to describe Jeffers at the start of the story?

4. Who is Kurt?

5. Which of L's relatives threatened his life in some way forcing him to run away from home when he was a teen?

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