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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 does Sakiel-Norn represent for the woman?
(a) Her relationship with the man.
(b) Her naïveté.
(c) Hope.
(d) Her childhood.

2. What does Laura claim that Winifred thinks is ludicrous?
(a) That she is pregnant.
(b) That Winifred is trying to kill Iris.
(c) That Richard is molesting her.
(d) That Iris is not really pregnant.

3. The man tells the woman a story about the lizard men from what planet?
(a) Saturn.
(b) Xenor.
(c) Aa'A.
(d) Zycron.

4. What is the name of the establishment where Laura and Iris meet after being apart for years?
(a) The Imperial Room.
(b) Betty's Luncheonette.
(c) Diana Sweets.
(d) The Arcadian Court.

5. How does Richard react when Laura tells him sending her to school is a waste of time?
(a) He disagrees and decides he will tutor her himself.
(b) He agrees.
(c) He disagrees and transfers her to another school.
(d) He disagrees and makes her stay at that school.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the woman react when the man asks her to leave her husband?

2. Whom does Iris go to visit to verify Laura's story about Richard and Alex?

3. Richard receives a letter concerning the psychiatric treatment of which character?

4. In chapter 12, what faux pas does Richard have to atone for?

5. Where does Iris find the things Laura had stashed away at Avilion?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to chapter 13, what pact had Laura made with God?

2. In chapter 12, what is the significance of the yellow curtains?

3. According to chapter 11, how does the adult Aimee feel towards her mother and why?

4. In chapter 10, the woman imagines the man in a variety of situations. Describe one of these situations.

5. In chapter 13 what is the state of Iris and Richard's marriage?

6. How does Iris choose to respond to the message left by her sister?

7. According to chapter 10, what is the political climate in Spain?

8. Why do you think Iris has 'The Blind Assassin' published?

9. What are Winifred's feelings toward Iris's pregnancy?

10. About what does the woman dream at the end of chapter 12?

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