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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 Montgomery consider asking Charlie for?
(a) A tour around town.
(b) A ride home.
(c) Directions.
(d) A loan.

2. What does Montgomery say words are?
(a) Useless.
(b) A luxury.
(c) An inconvenience.
(d) A necessity.

3. What profession does Montgomery claim to have?
(a) He says he is a scientist.
(b) He says he is an art dealer.
(c) He says he's a mechanic.
(d) He says he is a teacher.

4. Where does Montgomery attend school and meet his wife?
(a) London.
(b) South America.
(c) America.
(d) Ireland.

5. What does Montgomery claim about his actions at the time he committed his crime?
(a) That he knew exactly what he was doing.
(b) That he was disassociated from himself.
(c) That he doesn't think he did anything wrong.
(d) That he never meant to do any of it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Montgomery's lawyer described?

2. What does Maolseachlainn believe the fight between Montgomery and Dorothy was about?

3. What is his mother's business venture since his father's death?

4. What does Montgomery insist he went to Whitewater to do?

5. Montgomery goes looking for his mother to ask her about the missing items. Where does he find her and the stable hand?

Short Essay Questions

1. Montgomery's counsel forces him to say that he wanted to kill his father so he could marry his mother. Montgomery claims this isn't true. Why would his counsel force him to tell this lie?

2. Why are the details of Montgomery's engagement and marriage to Daphne important?

3. What is the relationship between Charlie French and Montgomery?

4. Montgomery describes his father and spends a lot time focusing on his mustache. Why does Montgomery do this?

5. When thinking about first meeting Daphne, Montgomery says "Anna was the priestess in a ritual giving Daphne, the sacrificial offering, to him." Why does he say this?

6. Do you think the fight between Montgomery and his mother was solely based on the selling of the paintings?

7. In the beginning of the novel, Montgomery makes a point to say he is not a homosexual. Why does he continue to make references to homosexuals, as when comparing his lawyer to a boy he believes was in love with him when he was a child?

8. Why does Montgomery feel the need to describe his mother as "statuesque"?

9. Why does Montgomery go out of his way to tell the court that he is not a homosexual?

10. Why is Montgomery's recount of his mother's funeral ironic?

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