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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maud do with a razor?
(a) slits her uncle's throat
(b) slits her wrists because she has changed her mind about the plan
(c) destroys a number of her uncle's pornographic books
(d) murders Sue

2. How does Sue use her playing cards?
(a) to fan herself since it's so warm in the house
(b) to play solitaire at night
(c) to tell Maud's fortune
(d) to play poker for money with the other servants

3. To whom does Mr. Hawtrey compare Maud?
(a) Galatea, a nymph sculpted in marble
(b) Helen of Troy
(c) Clarissa
(d) Queen Elizabeth I

4. Who devised the entire scheme about the inheritance?
(a) Mrs. Sucksby
(b) John Vroom
(c) the Gentleman
(d) Sue's aunt

5. After the cold water plunge, what happens to Sue's memory?
(a) she asks for it again as a means to cool off
(b) she has hypothermia
(c) she kills herself
(d) she begins to believe she is Maud

6. How does Sue treat Maud?
(a) with kindness and gentleness
(b) roughly
(c) with contempt
(d) indifferently

7. During the day before their escape, Maud and Sue visit ______________.
(a) Maud's mother's grave
(b) the root cellar to steal some food for the trip
(c) the stables to say goodbye to Maud's filly
(d) Mr. Lilly to gloat secretly

8. Maud thinks in the boat: "We glide, softly," she says, "in silence, into our ________.
(a) "trip to Paradise."
(b) "new life of love."
(c) "own fulfilled dreams."
(d) "dark and separate hells."

9. What does Sue have to do before she is released from the asylum?
(a) ask the nurses' forgiveness
(b) tell the doctor about Richard's plot
(c) write an accounting of her life
(d) have a lobotomy

10. What does Richard say when Maud accuses him of planning to murder her?
(a) that she has guessed correctly
(b) that Mrs. Sucksby would not like it
(c) that he is in love with her
(d) that she is hallucinogenic

11. What is wrong with Nurse Bacon?
(a) she has a broken hip
(b) she has swollen and painful hands
(c) her legs are twisted from polio
(d) she has had an ear cut off

12. What does Maud give Charles for Sue when Charles comes to the door of Mrs. Sucksby's house?
(a) a new dress
(b) a letter
(c) money
(d) the folded two of hearts card

13. How does Richard get Maud into the gardens?
(a) by asking permission of Mr. Lilly
(b) by saying it's time for Maud to paint nature
(c) by promising her a kiss
(d) by helping her climb down the trellis

14. What is the implication of Mrs. Sucksby saying, "my own dear girl."
(a) that Mrs. Sucksby is blind and thinks Maud is Sue
(b) that Mrs. Sucksby is trying to calm Maud and be a substitute mother
(c) that Maud is Mrs. Sucksby's biological daughter
(d) that Mrs. Sucksby plans to adopt Maud

15. What does Sue pawn to get money to rent a place across the street from Mrs. Sucksby's house?
(a) her diamond brooch
(b) a ruby ring she stole from a nurse
(c) Charles' coat
(d) Maud's glove

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles bring Sue the next week?

2. What card falls out when Sue is telling Maud her fortune?

3. What foreshadowing happens when Maud gives Sue one of her dresses?

4. What is John Vroom sent out to get for Maud to cheer her up?

5. Who does Maud decide to turn to for help?

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