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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Fitch reveal that he and Hartley are moving during the course of their conversation together?
(a) Japan
(b) Africa
(c) Australia
(d) Spain

2. _____________ is strolling precariously on the rocks bordering the sea when someone pushes him into the water.
(a) Charles
(b) Fitch
(c) Peregrine
(d) James

3. Whose death has left everyone in the house in a daze at the start of this chapter?
(a) Peregrine
(b) James
(c) Titus
(d) Charles

4. Who spends the day in the sun, nursing a blinding headache as he is at Charles's house?
(a) James
(b) Charles
(c) Peregrine
(d) Titus

5. Charles still believes that James and Hartley are ____________ him.
(a) Making fun of
(b) Close to
(c) Deceiving
(d) Impressed by

6. Who slips and falls into the sea when they happily greet Charles?
(a) Titus
(b) Rosina
(c) Lizzie
(d) Hartley

7. Diary entries reveal that in his will, ___________ named Charles as the sole heir.
(a) Titus
(b) Peregrine
(c) Gilbert
(d) James

8. What is Hartley beginning to mutter to herself that she wants to do, besides go home?
(a) Move
(b) Kill Titus
(c) Die
(d) Kill Charles

9. Charles convinces himself that the change in Hartley's behavior is the result of her realizing the ____________ of his love.
(a) Truth
(b) Inevitability
(c) Committment
(d) Strength

10. Charles is thinking about accepting an offer to _______________ from an old friend.
(a) Buy a home
(b) Read a book
(c) Buy a boat
(d) Direct a play

11. Charles begins to think that Fitch killed ____________, though James doesn't think so.
(a) Lizzie
(b) Gilbert
(c) Peregrine
(d) Titus

12. ______________ is murdered for his political/theatrical activism, Charles shares with the reader.
(a) Peregrine
(b) Gilbert
(c) Titus
(d) James

13. What interrupts the conversation between Charles and Titus by the sea?
(a) A warning
(b) A ship
(c) A sea serpent
(d) Rosina

14. Charles decides to return to his life in the ____________, according to the diary entries.
(a) Real estate market
(b) Art business
(c) Theater
(d) Banking sector

15. In whose apartment is Charles now living according to the contents of this chapter?
(a) Gilbert
(b) Peregrine
(c) Lizzie
(d) James

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles now realizes that he has always been in love with his own _______________.

2. Who decides to take over the cooking at the house for the group living with Charles?

3. What has fallen to the floor, releasing the demon within, according to Charles?

4. ______________ tells Charles that when he dropped off the letter he heard Fitch talking to another woman.

5. Who begins to drink heavily as a result of the death of one of the members of the household?

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