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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 is the name of the restaurant where Richard proposes to Iris?
(a) The Millennium Room.
(b) The Regency.
(c) The Imperial Room.
(d) The Arcadian Court.

2. Where does Iris keep Laura's notebooks?
(a) A coffee can.
(b) A sealed jar.
(c) A drawer.
(d) A steamer trunk.

3. What color are the gloves Laura is wearing on the day of her death?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Navy.
(d) Taupe.

4. What does the woman claim is bloody?
(a) Her heart.
(b) Her soul.
(c) Her mind.
(d) Her body.

5. Why does the king of Sakiel-Norn decide he wants to kill his mistress?
(a) She asked him to leave his wife for her.
(b) She is also having an affair with one of his nobles.
(c) She asks him for a poem.
(d) She is pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the lover's first picnic, what are they eating?

2. In what country is the novel set?

3. What is the name of the man Laura meets at the picnic and invites to Avilion for dinner?

4. What is the real name of the girls' tutor?

5. How does Aimee Griffen die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between the man and the woman in 'The Blind Assassin' sub novel in chapter 2.

2. In chapter 1, what is the official conclusion of Laura's cause of death?

3. In chapter 1, Iris says "some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling." Who do you think is/are the "they" she had in mind?

4. In chapter 4, what is Richard Griffen's stance on creating jobs throughout government stimulus plans implemented in America by Franklin D. Roosevelt?

5. In chapter 5, Laura does something that scares and angers Iris because she thinks it will save her dead mother. What does Laura do?

6. In chapter 5, how do the two sisters feel toward their governess, Miss Violence?

7. Why is it awkward between Liliana and Norval Chase when he returns from the war?

8. What is the fate of slave children who make the carpets in Sakiel-Norn?

9. How does Iris respond to requests for information about Laura?

10. In chapter 1, the protagonist of the sub novel looks at a picture. What does this picture depict?

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