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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was L when M first wrote to him?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) L.A.
(c) San Franciso.
(d) Chicago.

2. Though the second place was built for M, who did Tony say would likely think it was for them?
(a) Kurt.
(b) Jeffers.
(c) L.
(d) Justine.

3. How did Brett and L arrive in the harbor town?
(a) Cadillac.
(b) Boat.
(c) Limosine.
(d) Private jet.

4. What did Brett say the second place seemed to be straight out of when she first saw it?
(a) A romance novel.
(b) A fairy tale.
(c) A Good Housekeeping magazine.
(d) A horror story.

5. What period of M's life does she say her first encounter with L's artwork coincided?
(a) Her darkest years.
(b) Her happiest days.
(c) Her most creative time.
(d) Falling in love with Tony.

6. What did L tell M he had spent most of his life as?
(a) A sinner.
(b) A thief.
(c) A beggar.
(d) A puppet.

7. Where was Justine working before coming to the second place?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rome.
(c) Berlin.
(d) New York.

8. What did Tony discover when clearing the land near their house after he purchased it?
(a) A old graveyard.
(b) A suitcase of L's paintings.
(c) A safe filled with gold.
(d) A decaying cottage.

9. What did Kurt and Justine do at the house while M and Tony drove to get L?
(a) Cooked dinner.
(b) Ordered pizza.
(c) Slept.
(d) Watched television.

10. What type of painting by L was the narrator drawn to that morning in Paris?
(a) Landscape.
(b) Abstract.
(c) Self-portrait.
(d) Still life.

11. What did M's psychoanalyst do which she found offensive and so she stopped seeing him?
(a) He told other people what she told him.
(b) He told her she was not worth helping.
(c) He doodled a character map.
(d) He ignored her while she spoke.

12. Where was the narrator heading when she met someone on a train which changed the course of her life?
(a) London.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Paris.

13. Which style of painting most spoke to the narrator as she walked through his gallery in Paris?
(a) Surrealist.
(b) Portraits.
(c) Landscapes.
(d) Modernist.

14. Who does the narrator say appears to be free, which "doesn't look like much" (8)?
(a) Kurt.
(b) Jeffers.
(c) Justine.
(d) Tony.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the freedom that L's painting emanated?

2. How many children does the narrator tell Jeffers she had when she went to Paris?

3. Where does L say he has never felt "freer and more alone" (19)?

4. Why did Brett want M to buy new bed linens?

5. What type of business did L's family own?

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