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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much is the rent for the Italian villa?
(a) Forty-five pounds.
(b) One hundred pounds.
(c) Eighty pounds.
(d) Sixty pounds.

2. How does Mrs. Wilkins know Mrs. Arbuthnot?
(a) They went to school together.
(b) She is her neighbor.
(c) Their husbands are colleagues.
(d) From church.

3. When Mrs. Wilkins awakes in Chapter 6, which of the following does she not take pleasure in?
(a) The smell of the linens.
(b) The thought of being away from her husband for an entire month.
(c) The prettiness of her room.
(d) Being alone in bed.

4. What does Mrs. Arbuthnot feel she will have to do with Mrs. Wilkins at the villa in Chapter 3?
(a) She will have to help Mrs. Wilkins restrain her enthusiasm.
(b) She will have to keep her busy.
(c) She will have to learn more about her.
(d) She will have to allow her her distance.

5. What had "faded to the dimness of a dream" by the time the women arrived in Italy in Chapter 4?
(a) Their worries and guilt.
(b) Their husband's faces.
(c) Their lives back in England.
(d) Their aggression and angst from before.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Briggs?

2. What about Mrs. Wilkins is Mrs. Arbuthnot taken aback by in Chapter 1?

3. What do the two women do for the first time at the villa at the end of Chapter 5?

4. Where is Mrs. Wilkins at the beginning of the novel?

5. What newspaper is Mrs. Wilkins reading in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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