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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who told M they had started willing L to come stay in the second place after L finally agreed to come?
(a) Jeffers.
(b) Tony.
(c) Kurt.
(d) Justine.

2. Why does the narrator say nothing as she watches an old man fondle a little girl on the train?
(a) She had lost her voice.
(b) The man threatened her.
(c) She hoped someone else would.
(d) She did not care.

3. How old was M when L came to the marsh?
(a) 35.
(b) 27.
(c) 50.
(d) 65.

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

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

6. What does the narrator say she learned from a young age would have made her life easier?
(a) Being male.
(b) Being rich.
(c) Being well-educated.
(d) Being free.

7. What did Tony fail to do, which sometimes made M feel invisible?
(a) Hug her.
(b) Ask how her day was.
(c) Tell her she was beautiful.
(d) Criticize.

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

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

10. How does the narrator describe the freedom that L's painting emanated?
(a) Unrepentantly male.
(b) Beautifully narcissistic.
(c) Undoubtedly female.
(d) Elegantly silent.

11. Where else in the world did the narrator get the same feeling she had when looking at L's paintings?
(a) The streets of Paris.
(b) Her husband's marsh.
(c) The woods.
(d) Her quiet study.

12. Who is Brett?
(a) Justine's college roommate.
(b) L's female companion.
(c) L's daughter.
(d) Justine's boyfriend.

13. Which of L's relatives threatened his life in some way forcing him to run away from home when he was a teen?
(a) His father.
(b) His older siblings.
(c) His aunt and uncle.
(d) His mother.

14. To whom is the narrator speaking in Second Place?
(a) Jasper.
(b) Jenson.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Jeffers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the only request Tony made regarding M's appearance?

2. Who does the narrator say appears to be free, which "doesn't look like much" (8)?

3. Where did L say he was staying instead of going to the second place?

4. How did Brett and L arrive in the harbor town?

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

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