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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Maisie Maidan die?
(a) She was murdered.
(b) She dies from childbirth.
(c) She committed suicide.
(d) She dies from heart failure.

2. When Nancy Rufford is a child, how does her father treat her?
(a) He was cold and indifferent toward her.
(b) To her he was a kind, loving, and judicious father.
(c) He doted on her and spoiled her immensely.
(d) He was physically abusive toward her.

3. Who tells John Dowell that his wife and Captain Edward Ashburnham have been having an affair?
(a) Captain Edward Ashburnham.
(b) Jimmy.
(c) Leonora Ashburnham.
(d) Nancy Rufford.

4. In the first chapter, the narrator describes the story as what?
(a) The most scandalous story he has ever heard.
(b) The most exciting story he has ever heard.
(c) The most romantic story he has ever heard.
(d) The saddest story he has ever heard.

5. On the day Leonora Ashburnham is bedridden, what story does Nancy Rufford read in the newspaper?
(a) A story about a married couple and their contentious divorce.
(b) A story about a husband who murders his wife.
(c) A story about a husband and wife who win the lottery.
(d) A story about a wife who murders her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Maisie Maidan's marital status?

2. What is the nature of Captain Edward Ashburnham's relationship to Maisie Maidan?

3. What is the name of the region where the Ashburnhams meet Maisie Maidan for the first time?

4. Which of the following best describes Leonora Ashburnham's relationship with Florence Dowell?

5. In the first chapter, it's revealed that which of these two characters are having an affair?

(see the answer key)

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