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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tonio do at the ratting that intrigues Micky?
(a) He laughs.
(b) He kisses April.
(c) He vomits.
(d) He places a large bet.

2. What does Maisie stop from happening to Hugh during the Punch and Judy show?
(a) She stops a man from hitting him.
(b) She stops him from taking a drink.
(c) She stops a pickpocket.
(d) She prevents Augusta from finding him at the races.

3. Why does Mr. Offerton send Hugh to the schoolmaster's office when he sees him in the courtyard in the Prologue?
(a) He needs to be told about Peter.
(b) Hugh will be whipped for going swimming.
(c) They want to question him about Micky.
(d) Hugh's mother is there to see him.

4. Why is Micky afraid of his father?
(a) He is ignorant and angry.
(b) He has beaten Micky many times.
(c) He can force Micky to go back to Mexico.
(d) He has done heinous things to those who have gone against him.

5. What does Augusta reveal to Micky at the end of Part 1, Chapter 3?
(a) That a lawyer is looking into the drowning of Peter.
(b) That she is afraid for Micky about the drowning.
(c) That she wants him.
(d) That she knows he killed Peter.

6. Why does Carlos want Micky to stay in London?
(a) To get money from the banks for him.
(b) To keep him away from his brother, Paulo.
(c) To marry into the Pilaster family.
(d) To sell nitrate for him.

7. Why doesn't Maisie spend the entire day with Solly?
(a) She doesn't like horse racing.
(b) She has plans to meet Hugh.
(c) She is not allowed to.
(d) She is bored.

8. What does Hugh decide to do with his future after the Nora incident in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Work harder to regain his family's acceptance.
(b) Take time off.
(c) Go back to Boston.
(d) Go work for Greenbourne.

9. Why are the boys in detention in the Prologue of the book?
(a) One of them was insubordinate.
(b) They were boisterous in class.
(c) They swam in the watering hole.
(d) Someone stole money.

10. How does Augusta get invited to the Duchess' costume ball?
(a) She gets Lady Morte to get her tickets.
(b) She has Joseph get her tickets.
(c) She has Micky get her tickets.
(d) She has Maisie get her tickets.

11. In Part 1, Chapter 3, what "secret" does Samuel know that he says may come back to haunt Augusta?
(a) Peter's brother, a lawyer, is making inquiries.
(b) Augusta has feelings for Micky.
(c) Joseph has been unfaithful.
(d) Joseph's work is not respected.

12. What types of people went to the horse races in London in the late 1800s?
(a) Just the weathy.
(b) Just the working class.
(c) Just the poor.
(d) All types.

13. What kind of a woman is Augusta Pilaster?
(a) Easily swayed.
(b) Weak, yet beautiful.
(c) Overbearing.
(d) Strong and beautiful.

14. What do Micky and Edward do to the other boys at the watering hole?
(a) They join them in a game.
(b) They make them leave the hole.
(c) They take their clothes and run.
(d) They throw their clothes in the water.

15. What class of people generally go to the Argyll Room?
(a) Clerks and small businessmen.
(b) Gamblers.
(c) Call girls and the men who want them.
(d) Artistocracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Samuel think of the offer that Hugh made to Cammel?

2. To where does Danny run away in the Prologue?

3. What does Albert Cammel's letter to Hugh reveal?

4. Hugh and his mother speak frankly for the first time about all of the following except for what?

5. What proposition does Hugh bring to the family bankers at the beginning of Part 2?

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