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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does L tell M he always feel the need to escape during their first conversation after he arrived at the second place?
(a) Fame.
(b) His own mind.
(c) Society.
(d) Women.

2. What does M call the cabin on her and her husband's property?
(a) The other place.
(b) The artist's residence.
(c) The tiny house.
(d) The second place.

3. With whom did L live while his father was dying?
(a) His older sister and her husband.
(b) Foster parents.
(c) His aunt and uncle.
(d) His older brother.

4. What does the narrator say she has wanted to be her whole life, but has never succeeded?
(a) Free.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Driven.
(d) Creative.

5. How did Tony's parents die?
(a) They were murdered.
(b) They committed suicide.
(c) They drowned.
(d) They were in a fatal car accident.

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

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

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

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

10. What was the narrator doing in Paris when she noticed a sign with a painting by L?
(a) Having wine with a man.
(b) Heading to meet a friend for dinner.
(c) Drinking espresso in a cafe.
(d) Searching for something to eat.

11. In what way does Brett seem out of place when they meet at the harbor town?
(a) She is dressed in rags.
(b) She is very quiet.
(c) She is overdressed.
(d) She is overly affectionate.

12. How many children does the narrator tell Jeffers she had when she went to Paris?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

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

15. Though Tony's adopted parents never spoke of his origins, what did M suspect they were?
(a) Hispanic.
(b) South Asian.
(c) African American.
(d) Native American.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did L tell M he wanted to paint first?

2. What did L ask M when he wrote that he was staying in Rio de Janeiro?

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

4. What disease does M think L's father died from?

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

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