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

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

3. What did Tony wear to the harbor town when picking up L?
(a) A three piece suit.
(b) A tuxedo and bowtie.
(c) A sweatsuit and baseball cap.
(d) Shorts and a T-Shirt.

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

5. 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 quiet study.
(c) Her husband's marsh.
(d) The woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did M's psychoanalyst do which she found offensive and so she stopped seeing him?

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

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

4. Where was L when M first wrote to him?

5. To whom is the narrator speaking in Second Place?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the narrator speaking to at the start of the novel? What does she say happened while on a train in Paris?

2. What do readers learn about Tony's backstory in the third chapter?

3. What did the narrator tell L about his artwork's impact on her life when she invited him to stay in the second place?

4. What did Tony and M do to prepare the second place for L's arrival?

5. What is M's impression of Brett when she first meets her?

6. What did Tony find after clearing the adjacent land he bought near the marsh? What did he do there?

7. What does Tony say to M when she gets angry with him after L says he is not staying with them?

8. What issue did Brett have with the bed linen in the second place? What did she want M to do?

9. Where did L stay instead of coming to the second place? What happened to him while there? Where did he invite M during that winter?

10. What does the narrator feel L's painting emanated when she first saw them that morning in Paris, which compelled her to follow it to the art gallery?

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