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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 M tell L Tony's early experience with death forced him to do?
(a) Treat every day like the last.
(b) Cherish his family even more.
(c) Stay exactly where he was forever.
(d) Change his evil ways.

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

3. What word does the narrator use to describe the writer with whom she spent her last night in Paris?
(a) Eccentric.
(b) Egotist.
(c) Environmentalist.
(d) Earnest.

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

5. What type of vehicle does Tony drive?
(a) A corvette.
(b) A pick-up truck.
(c) A minivan.
(d) A jeep.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Though Tony's adopted parents never spoke of his origins, what did M suspect they were?

3. What did Tony fail to do, which sometimes made M feel invisible?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where was L when M first wrote to him? What did he say about the idea of being alone? Where did he say he felt most alone and free?

3. How did Kurt help M when trying to explain what Justine and Kurt needed to move into the main house so L could stay in the second place?

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

5. 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?

6. What happened on the narrator's final morning in Paris when she saw a particular sign?

7. How does the narrator describe the man she met on the train in Paris? What was he doing? Why did she not say something?

8. How is M's hair described at the time of L's visit? Why did she keep it that way?

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

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

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