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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Isobel say about her size?
(a) She is a dwarf.
(b) She is large.
(c) She is over six feet tall and very beautiful.
(d) She is petite.

2. What does Isobel end up asking Audrey?
(a) If there is anything Audrey wants to tell Isobel.
(b) If Audrey wants to go get ice cream.
(c) If her father beats her mother.
(d) If her father beats her.

3. What does Isobel notice about Aubrey one day?
(a) She seems to be gaining weight.
(b) She has a bad cough.
(c) She has grown a couple inches.
(d) She has changed the color of her lipstick.

4. What does the flashback in this section concern?
(a) When Charles and Isobel are lost in the woods.
(b) To when Vinny gets married.
(c) When Eliza is pregnant.
(d) When Charlotte opens her grocery.

5. Where does Charlotte serve the children lunch?
(a) In the formal dining room.
(b) On the patio.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In bed.

6. What does Charlotte Fairfax do?
(a) A seamstress.
(b) A nurse.
(c) A librarian.
(d) Runs the family grocery business.

7. What does Richard Primrose do when he enters Isobel's room?
(a) Asks her to the prom.
(b) Attacks her.
(c) Gives her some information about her mother.
(d) Reads her part of a Shakespeare play.

8. What does Gordon give Eliza for Christmas one year?
(a) A trip to her native Australia.
(b) A gold ring with emerals and diamonds.
(c) A new car.
(d) A diamond necklace.

9. What does Eliza do when she goes into labor with Isobel?
(a) Goes to the local midwife's home.
(b) Goes into the woods to have the baby.
(c) Makes Gordon take her to London for the birth.
(d) Locks herself in her room and gives birth alone.

10. What do Charles and Isobel find when they go into the woods to look for their parents?
(a) Their aunt who is very ill.
(b) No one.
(c) Their mother who is either dead or unconscious.
(d) A puppy.

11. Why is Gordon troubled?
(a) Because Vinny is so critical of Isobel.
(b) Because of the shoe Isobel finds in Vinny's closet.
(c) Because Charles wants to move to London.
(d) Because Charles is dating a poor, uneducated woman.

12. Where does Isobel think she has been transported one day on her way home from school?
(a) The 19th century.
(b) Mars.
(c) The 16th century.
(d) The 12th century.

13. To whom does Isobel see Malcolm talking?
(a) Charlotte.
(b) Debbie.
(c) Hilary.
(d) Audrey.

14. What does Francis Fairfax give his wife when he marries?
(a) The famous Fairfax Jewel.
(b) An expensive mare.
(c) A separate allowance.
(d) A thousand pounds.

15. How does Eunice upset Isobel?
(a) She tells Isobel that her new puppy belongs to a neighbor.
(b) She tells Isobel she heard Malcolm is dating Hilary.
(c) She tells Isobel that it's sad Isobel is so tall.
(d) She tells Isobel that Isobel's mother was not a nice lady.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Fairfax family buy in the 20th century?

2. What occurs in Fairfax Manor in 1582?

3. What is the date of the setting of the novel?

4. What does Charles find that he incorporates into his theories about his mother?

5. How do girls find Isobel's brother?

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