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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. Where do Keach and Birkin go after discussing Birkin's request to use something in the church?
(a) To see the object.
(b) To the graveyard.
(c) Out to the garden.
(d) To see his workspace.

2. Who discovered the painting before painting over it?
(a) Birkin.
(b) Charles Moon.
(c) Keach.
(d) Miss Hebron.

3. What does Birkin look at after Keach visits him for the first time?
(a) The wall where the painting is thought to be.
(b) The grave of Piers Hebron.
(c) The 18th century tombstones.
(d) His supplies.

4. What is Moon's tent pitched over?
(a) Hole.
(b) Garden.
(c) Rock.
(d) Flat area.

5. Who is glad for the chance to at least look upon Alice and admire her beauty?
(a) Kathy.
(b) Birkin.
(c) Richard.
(d) Moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Moon and Birkin meet for the first time, Birkin thinks in hindsight that Moon knows ________.

2. Who argues that it is an outrage that someone as beautiful as Alice is married to Keach?

3. What is Birkin doing when Alice Keach first comes to see him at the church?

4. When Thomas Birkin enters the church for the first time, he finds that it has what type of floor?

5. What is the name of the church's minister?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who approaches Thomas Birkin when he first arrives in Oxgodby, England? What does this person offer Birkin? How does Birkin respond?

2. What is attached to the church? What does it contain?

3. Why does Kathy Ellerbeck come to visit Birkin at the church? What does she bring?

4. Who do Kathy, Edgar, and Birkin visit on the way home from Sunday school? What do they give her?

5. Describe Birkin's analysis of his financial situation as he sits in the bell tower at the beginning of Section 2.

6. Describe the church in Oxgodby, England.

7. What does Birkin think when Keach has not given him his first installment for the work on the painting? What action does he take?

8. While Thomas Birkin is at the station at the beginning of the novel, who does he see looking at him? What does he imagine that this person is thinking?

9. Describe what Birkin sees when he first enters the church.

10. What new character does Keach reveal as he and Birkin discuss living arrangements and where does this character live?

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