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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. What is the relationship between Hugh and Edward?
(a) They are enemies.
(b) They are brothers.
(c) They are best friends.
(d) They are cousins.

2. What does Danny come to tell Maisie in Part 2, Chapter 1?
(a) That she should not keep company with Hugh.
(b) That he needs her to give him money.
(c) That a bank has ruined him again.
(d) That her mother is ill again.

3. What does Maisie eat with Bertie in the nursery?
(a) Ice cream.
(b) Pancakes.
(c) Pastries.
(d) Porridge and honey.

4. In Part 1, Chapter 1, how many years have passed since the Prologue?
(a) 10.
(b) 7.
(c) 25.
(d) 2.

5. How does Micky kill Seth?
(a) He suffocates him with his pillow.
(b) He poisons him.
(c) He stabs him.
(d) He frightens him into a heart attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Augusta discuss with Lady Morte that offends the Lady?

2. In Part 2, Chapter 2, what is Hugh against the bank investing in?

3. Why did Pilaster and Co. shut down?

4. Where does Hugh meet Nora?

5. What does Samuel think of the offer that Hugh made to Cammel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens between Micky and Augusta in the church? What is the significance of their conversation?

2. What is the setting of the novel, and how does it affect the storyline immediately?

3. What transpires between Hugh and Maisie in Part I, Chapter 4?

4. What does Hugh like about Nora when he first meets her?

5. What transpires about marriage and taking care of oneself between Maisie and April in Part 1, Chapter 3?

6. What does Micky do to Seth in Part 1, Chapter 5? Why?

7. Who is Augusta now manipulating in Part 2, and why?

8. In Part 1, Chapter 5, what has happened with Maisie since she last saw Hugh?

9. Why does Hugh go to the Greenbourne's for a job?

10. What kind of a character is Augusta?

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