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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Val tell Fergus that Roland is?
(a) Val thinks Roland is at a conference in Northern England.
(b) Val thinks Roland is at an auction in Paris.
(c) Val thinks Roland is in Italy at a museum.
(d) Val thinks Roland is looking at a book for Blackadder.

2. Who did Christabel choose to raise her child?
(a) Her sister, Sophia.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Ash's cousin.
(d) Blanche's estranged sister.

3. At dinner, what does Christabel seem like to Ash?
(a) A trapped bird.
(b) A waiting squirrel.
(c) A fearful puppy.
(d) An injured cat.

4. Does the medium say that the apprentice has mystical powers?
(a) No, the medium hides the fact that the apprentice has powers.
(b) Yes, the medium sincerely believes in spiritual powers.
(c) No, the medium is upfront that the apprentice has no powers.
(d) Yes, but the medium is lying.

5. What does the group hope to do?
(a) Catch Cropper bribing Hildebrand.
(b) Catch Cropper and Hildebrand digging up graves.
(c) Get Cropper and Hildebrand to fight with each other.
(d) Get reporters to write a negative story about Cropper.

6. Whose number does Val give to Fergus?
(a) Leonora's.
(b) Sir George's.
(c) Maud's.
(d) Cropper's.

7. What is Cropper's lecture about?
(a) The Art of the Biographer.
(b) The Collector's True Purpose.
(c) The Past in Words and Pictures.
(d) The Life and Times of Ash.

8. Who does Euan believe rightfully owns Christabel and Ash's letters today?
(a) Roland.
(b) Sir George.
(c) Cropper.
(d) Maud.

9. When does Sabine realize Christabel is pregnant?
(a) In Christabel's room on the second night of her visit.
(b) On Christabel's first night at the house.
(c) When Christabel helps making breakfast.
(d) During church at Christmas.

10. What does the medium gain from giving séances?
(a) Money.
(b) Food.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Pride.

11. What does Roland discover happened to his landlady?
(a) She had a seizure.
(b) She had a stroke.
(c) She broke her arm.
(d) She had a heart attack.

12. Who is the letter from that Leonora shows Maud?
(a) Sir George Bailey.
(b) Dr. LeMinier.
(c) Cropper.
(d) Blackadder.

13. What poem is James Blackadder annotating at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) Mummy Possest.
(b) Ragnarök III.
(c) Swammerdam.
(d) The Garden of Proserpina.

14. Who does Val meet at the horse races?
(a) Sir George's lawyer.
(b) Cropper.
(c) Leonore.
(d) Blackadder.

15. Who calls Blackadder's office on Sir George's behalf?
(a) Maud.
(b) Cropper.
(c) Roland.
(d) Sir George's lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Randolf Ash do on the shore during the day?

2. Where is Melusine when the knight finds her?

3. What is Maud's actual relationship to Christabel?

4. What is Sir George's attitude toward Maud after he sees his lawyer?

5. What does Roland read after he gets back to his apartment?

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