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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Rowley ask Mary?
(a) If she plans to go ahead with her plans to return to England.
(b) If she wants to travel with him to the United States.
(c) If she plans to marry Edgar.
(d) Why she wants to marry Edgar so badly.
2. Why does Rowley propose to Mary?
(a) He feels tender towards her.
(b) He needs a wife.
(c) He is a little drunk.
(d) He has loved her from afar for several years.
3. Who is Princess San Ferdinanado?
(a) A woman who holds grand parties to which Mary has never been invited.
(b) Mary's childhood friend.
(c) The Princess of Tuscany who is a recent widow.
(d) A woman who is hostessing a party that evening.
4. Why is Edgar visiting?
(a) He needs to ask Mary's advice about her sister.
(b) He is a contractor who will be doing the remodeling of her villa.
(c) He has an appointment in Cannes and so is nearby.
(d) He wants to buy the villa where she is staying.
5. What does Mary wish she had done?
(a) Stayed home to think about marriage.
(b) Stayed home so she did not have to be cheerful.
(c) Called her sister and canceled the visit.
(d) Stayed home and packed to go to her mother.
6. About what did Mary and Matthew fight?
(a) Money.
(b) His drinking.
(c) Nothing much.
(d) His long absences.
7. What does Mary admit she came to feel?
(a) Nothing for Matthew.
(b) Despise for Matthew.
(c) Horrific anger at Matthew.
(d) Extreme pity for Matthew.
8. Why couldn't Mary end the marriage?
(a) Matthew was so dependent on her.
(b) She thought he would change eventually.
(c) She was embarrassed.
(d) She was paid by Matthew's parents to stay.
9. What ashamed Mary about Matthew?
(a) The way he eyed other women.
(b) His drunken rages.
(c) His desire to cross dress.
(d) The way he treated the servants.
10. How did Mary feel about Matthew?
(a) Pressured to marry him.
(b) Completely head over heels in love.
(c) Ambivalent.
(d) Confused.
11. Why does Mary say about Matthew Panton?
(a) She should not have married him.
(b) She had never been in love with him.
(c) He was a good man.
(d) He was misguided.
12. Who is Edgar Swift?
(a) A man for whom Mary is waiting.
(b) Her second cousin.
(c) Her brother-in-law.
(d) The tenant of a villa Mary wants to buy.
13. What does Karl say he would like to do that night?
(a) Swim in the Arno River.
(b) Rescue his family in Nazi Germany.
(c) Die since he will never have a better night.
(d) Move to America.
14. Why does Karl Richter take the job at the restaurant as a violinist?
(a) His landlady needs the money.
(b) He has no place to live.
(c) He hopes to make connections.
(d) He loves music.
15. What position does Mary believe Edgar might be offered?
(a) A position with her father's conglomerate.
(b) A position with the largest architectural firm in Italy.
(c) She doesn't believe he will receive an offer.
(d) A position with the government.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Rowley suggest Mary and he go that night?
2. What does Mary decide to give Karl as a gift?
3. What does Rowley say about his reputation?
4. What does Mary learn from her lawyer?
5. What does Mary say she would give Rowley if she could?
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