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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. About what do Mary and Rowley speak at length?
(a) Rowley's home in the United States.
(b) Rowley's new business venture in Tuscany.
(c) Mary and Edgar and Mary's situation.
(d) Mary's father's architectural designs.

2. Of what nationality is Princess San Ferdinando?
(a) German.
(b) French.
(c) American.
(d) Italian.

3. Why is Rowley Flint invited to the party?
(a) As a possible suitor for Mary.
(b) As a balance to the Princess's husband's taciturn nature.
(c) To even out the attendance after Edgar gave his regrets.
(d) Because he just arrived in Florence and is a childhood friend of the Princess.

4. What does Rowley ask Mary?
(a) If she plans to go ahead with her plans to return to England.
(b) Why she wants to marry Edgar so badly.
(c) If she wants to travel with him to the United States.
(d) If she plans to marry Edgar.

5. What does Mary decide to give Karl as a gift?
(a) A possible job with her father.
(b) A sexual encounter.
(c) An old violin that has been in her family.
(d) Money to pay his rent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ashamed Mary about Matthew?

2. Who is Ciro?

3. Where is the party Mary is attending that night to be held?

4. What does Mary wish she had done?

5. What does Mary encounter on her way home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to distress Mary about Matthew?

2. What does the Colonel think of Edgar's prospects in his career?

3. What are the topics of conversation between Rowley and Mary?

4. What sort of arrangements does Edgar make with Ciro?

5. What is passed around at the end of the party and what does Mary do?

6. What does narration say of the villa in which Mary is staying?

7. How does Karl present himself?

8. What is paradoxical about the Princess's personality?

9. What is Mary's response to Rowley's questions about Edgar and how does Rowley respond?

10. What does Mary point out about Rowley's reputation and what is his response?

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