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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. Hal does NOT name which of the following clients' problems when she considers the ways she is able to help them?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Domestic violence.
(c) Unemployment.
(d) Alcohol.

2. Who flashes a "Cheshire cat smile" (68) at Hal during the funeral for Hester Westaway?
(a) Mrs. Warren.
(b) Mitzi.
(c) Abel.
(d) Ezra.

3. Which two of Hester Westaway's children were born as twins?
(a) Maggie and Abel.
(b) Maggie and Ezra.
(c) Maud and Ezra.
(d) Maud and Harding.

4. Hal finds a letter in the recycle bin inviting her to Trepassen House at the behest of what kind of person?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A cousin.
(c) An aunt.
(d) A doctor.

5. Which character notices the tattoo peeking out of Hal's shirt and asks to see the whole tattoo?
(a) Mitzi.
(b) Abel.
(c) Mrs. Warren.
(d) Freddie.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what position is octogenarian Mrs. Warren employed within Trepassen House?

2. In whose honor does Hal say she had gotten a tattoo of a bird?

3. Each of Mitzi and Harding's children is awarded how many thousands of pounds from their grandmother Hester Westaway?

4. The epigraph included at the start of the novel The Death of Mrs. Westaway features what element in association with the number seven?

5. In Chapter 12, when Hal decides that she does not feel like an athlete after all, she decides that she instead "feels like a grandmaster before a" (90) what?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason is Hal herself dismayed when the contents of Hester Westaway's will are revealed?

2. What alarming development happens at the funeral for Hester Westaway?

3. What meaningful item does Hal keep on her mantelpiece and what does the object symbolize?

4. Describe the three Westaway brothers' three different reactions to the news that Hal is Maud's daughter.

5. In what way does Ware join together the themes of free will and responsibility?

6. How did the drastic change just before Hal's 18th birthday transform her life?

7. How does the reader come to find out that Maud and the writer of the diary had been cousins?

8. What drastic change in Hal's life occurred just before her 18th birthday?

9. How and why does Abel's reaction to the news about the inheritance differ from his brother Harding's reaction?

10. Discuss an instance when Ware uses personification to suggest the qualities of Trepassen House.

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