The Loved One | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

A Warning and Chapter One

1. What are the principal settings for this novel?

Two funeral homes.

2. Besides being fiction, how else is the story described in the paragraph that is set before Chapter 1?

A little nightmare.

3. Who does the author suggest return the book unread to where they got it?

Readers who are easily upset.

4. What is one natural scene described in Chapter 1?

The foothills.

5. How are the Englishmen described?

As exiles.

6. What are the Englishmen drinking?

Whiskey and soda.

7. Who is Ambrose Abercrombie?

Someone who will be arriving soon.

8. Who is Sir Francis Hinsley?

The elder of the two Englishmen.

9. What is one word that one of the Englishmen might use to describe Americans?

Decent.

10. Who is Barlow?

The younger of the two Englishmen sitting together and talking.

11. About what does Ambrose admonish Sir...
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