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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Spencer believe of the people who built the new housing on the Thames Embankment?
(a) Spencer believes the builders were really trying to make the living quarters nicer.
(b) They would not house their hounds in such a building.
(c) Spencer thinks the poor will end up destroying the new buildings.
(d) The builders deliberately made the apartments smaller than the existing ones.

2. Why is Samuel Hall so angry with Edward Burton?
(a) Edward is always teasing him.
(b) Samuel feels Edward is better looking than he.
(c) Samuel hates Edward for stealing his girlfriend.
(d) Samuel Hall holds a childhood grudge against Edward.

3. How many children does Stella birth?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

4. What does Martha infer when she tells Edward she cannot marry him?
(a) She admits that she never wants to get married.
(b) She states she loves politics over all else.
(c) She admits that she will always love Cora.
(d) She admits she is in love with Edward.

5. What does Luke Garrett conclude under a giant oak tree?
(a) That he will not heal properly.
(b) That his life has been useless.
(c) That Cora will never love him.
(d) That he will never work again.

6. Why does Cora write to Luke Garrett after the hysteria of the school girls?
(a) Cora wants Luke to perform hypnosis on Joanna.
(b) Cora believes Luke is smart enough to determine what the cause was for the hysteria.
(c) Cora thinks Luke can get Joanna to explain what happened.
(d) Luke Garrett likes to investigate psychological incidences.

7. What does Stella think of William and Cora's relationship?
(a) Stella believes their friendship will soon end.
(b) Stella pities William for his emotional entaglement.
(c) Stella thinks Cora is trying to steal her husband.
(d) Stella thinks they are very good friends.

8. What does Ned's mother say about his personality after he has been stabbed?
(a) She says Ned sleeps much more than he used to.
(b) She feels Edward is an entirely new person that she has to get to know all over again.
(c) She says Ned seems to have a dual personality since the stabbing.
(d) She says Ned is much more intelligent than he used to be.

9. When does Naomi go missing?
(a) After the incident at the tavern.
(b) Just before the summer dinner party at Cora's.
(c) The day Cracknell dies.
(d) Shortly after the hysteria at the school.

10. What does Katherine believe the villagers of Aldwinter first thought about the smell?
(a) Katherine believes the villagers thought they had died.
(b) She believes they all thought they were poisoned.
(c) The smell was believed to be a curse.
(d) The villagers thought the earth opened up revealing tar pits.

11. What happens to Naomi at the White Hare tavern?
(a) Naomi is asked to show her webbing.
(b) Naomi is raped.
(c) Naomi makes friends with the men drinking there.
(d) Naomi is offered a drink.

12. What happens as the villagers view the dead fish?
(a) A giant tapeworm bursts from its belly.
(b) The flesh starts to fall off the bones.
(c) A woman falls down almost face-to-face with the dead fish.
(d) The tide washes the body away.

13. How does Cora think William thinks of her?
(a) Cora thinks William is in love with her.
(b) Cora thinks William believes she is just a friend of Stella's.
(c) She thinks William looks at her as simply a mind.
(d) She believes William thinks of her as friend.

14. What, to Naomi, is worse than someone's dislike?
(a) Death.
(b) Fear.
(c) Anger.
(d) Pity.

15. What does Evansford do when he hears about an unexplained death in St. Osyth?
(a) He uses Cracknell's moles as wards.
(b) Evansford shut's their town borders.
(c) He sacrifices a chicken to appease the Essex Serpent.
(d) Evansford paints each door lintel with chicken blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose for Spencer asking for Charles' help with the housing in London?

2. What spectacle does the group touring the slums witness?

3. What does Charles Ambrose believe about the poor of Bethnal Green?

4. How is a story supposed to begin, according to Cora?

5. In London, why does Katherine visit Cora with Joanna?

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