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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. Asa tells Catherine that he has information about what?
(a) Lucy's background.
(b) Matty's illness.
(c) Birthday gifts.
(d) The apparition.

2. According to Asa, the skin cools __________________.
(a) after a bath.
(b) in the icehouse.
(c) in the woods.
(d) after thrashings.

3. What is Mr. Holt's profession?
(a) Tracker.
(b) Minister.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Teacher.

4. Who had made the quilt given to the phantom?
(a) Mrs. Shipman.
(b) Catherine and Cassie.
(c) Catherine and her mother.
(d) Mrs. Shipman and Lucy.

5. Who teaches Catherine and her sister housekeeping techniques?
(a) Mr. Hall.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Mrs. Shipman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What blocks passage on the roads?

2. What has Asa seen that leads him to believe he has information about the apparition?

3. Catherine believes that _____________ has taken the item from the storeroom?

4. What type of animals are used to clear the road?

5. What are the children doing as Chapter 6 begins?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Catherine feel so much stress about helping the phantom?

2. What does Catherine tell about her life as she begins her journal?

3. How is Mrs. Hall remembered at a New Year's celebration?

4. Who becomes ill in the Hall household and who cares for this person?

5. What is Asa's philosophical stance on continuing to take punishment for things he did not do?

6. What job are men involved in as Chapter 9 begins?

7. How does the Hall family spend its first Thanksgiving since the death of Mrs. Hall?

8. What spooky story does Mr. Hall tell that foreshadows events in the woods?

9. What two instances of flashback are used in Chapter 8?

10. Describe the story of the runaway Williams boy becoming a Russian Count.

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