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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. What does Isobel see outside the window while washing dishes?
(a) A fox running across the yard with a chicken in his jaws.
(b) Mr. Rice exposing himself.
(c) A raccoon eating one of their chickens.
(d) Mr. Rice dancing in the rain.

2. What does Isobel do when she hears a voice?
(a) Asks for her mama.
(b) Screams.
(c) Runs away.
(d) Wakes Charles.

3. With what is Debbie obsessed when Isobel arrives home?
(a) The china cabinet.
(b) The baby.
(c) A caterpillar.
(d) A ring that she finds.

4. What is one thing Mr. Rice leaves behind when he vacates the house?
(a) Three months of unpaid rent.
(b) His red handkerchief.
(c) His back scratcher.
(d) His wingtips.

5. What does Charles lament?
(a) His ugly wife.
(b) His lack of culture.
(c) His lack of education.
(d) His short stature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vinny do with what Charles offers Gordon?

2. What happens in 1605 at the Fairfax manor?

3. What is Audrey doing during the lecture that bores Isobel?

4. Where does Gordon say Eliza is?

5. What ultimatum does Eliza give Gordon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the interaction between Gordon and his two young children after Gordon returns from the woods.

2. Describe how Charles and Isobel are born.

3. What does Francis Fairfax give his new wife and what happens to the present?

4. How do Charlotte and Vinny treat Eliza and what is her response?

5. How is Mr. Rice presented in a less-than-favorable narrative?

6. What are the circumstances surrounding Charlotte's death?

7. What does Isobel "see" in the time wrap she experiences in this chapter?

8. What does Isobel observe on a visit to the Baxters in autumn?

9. Who is Francis Fairfax, and what does the narrator write about him?

10. What does Isobel say are Charles' hobbies, and how does he relate one of his hobbies to his mother?

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