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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. Which character shakes Hal's hand upon meeting her in Chapter 12?
(a) Abel.
(b) Ezra.
(c) Harding.
(d) Freddie.
2. Which character uses their medical training to examine Hal in Chapter 15?
(a) Mitzi.
(b) Harding.
(c) Edward.
(d) Abel.
3. It is revealed in Chapter 13 that Maud and Maggie had been related to one another in what way?
(a) They were stepsisters.
(b) They were sisters.
(c) They were sisters-in-law.
(d) They were cousins.
4. Hal often insists to her clients that the tarot cards are not what metaphorical object?
(a) A signal.
(b) A death warrant.
(c) A prison cell.
(d) A free pass.
5. In Chapter 16, Hal misses which character so much that it is "like a physical pain around her heart" (129)?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.
Short Answer Questions
1. What liquid splashes onto Hal's face when the man with the lisp destroys her property?
2. In Chapter 5, Hal visits Reg's booth in order to purchase what item?
3. Where has the photograph of Hal and her mother laughing on Brighton Beach been located for the past ten years?
4. In Chapter 12, Hal sees how many long black sedans pull up beneath her attic window?
5. What is NOT an emotion Hal feels as she looks at pictures of the Westaway family's opulent lifestyle?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the theme of trust enter the narrative within the diary entry featured at the end of Chapter 10?
2. Which elements of Hal's accommodations within Trepassen House does Hal find creepy?
3. How and why does Abel's reaction to the news about the inheritance differ from his brother Harding's reaction?
4. In what way does Hal turn her fear of meeting the Westaway family to her advantage?
5. What alarming development happens at the funeral for Hester Westaway?
6. What distinction does Hal make between two different types of her clientele?
7. What drastic change in Hal's life occurred just before her 18th birthday?
8. How does the reader come to find out that Maud and the writer of the diary had been cousins?
9. What does the narrator mean with the claim that Hal tells her clients not only what they wanted to hear, but "What they needed to know as well" (24)?
10. Who is Mrs. Warren?
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