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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. How do Cassie and Asa respond to Catherine's sighting of an apparition?
(a) They threaten to tell the minister about it.
(b) They believe her.
(c) They tease her.
(d) They are frightened too.

2. What are Mr. Hall's plans to marry Sophy?
(a) He will think about it in a couple years.
(b) No plans.
(c) He is thinking about it.
(d) He wants to propose this month.

3. Mr. Hall tells his daughters a story about ___________________.
(a) Jesus.
(b) his childhood.
(c) right and wrong.
(d) a headless woman.

4. Why does Catherine miss school in Chapter 7?
(a) She is ill.
(b) She has a toothache.
(c) She broke her leg.
(d) She has to help with the harvest.

5. How does Mr. Holt communicate his request to retain his position?
(a) In a telegram.
(b) In a speech.
(c) In a letter.
(d) In public notices.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the children complains about school?

2. Who had made the quilt given to the phantom?

3. Who is accused of aiding the runaway slave?

4. Why are Catherine and Cassie out of school?

5. What does Mr. Holt give Catherine permission to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mr. Holt's style of teaching put him in trouble with the townspeople?

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

3. What news does Sophy tell her friends about where she will be going and why she is going there?

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

5. How does a big snowstorm impact Catherine and her family?

6. What changes must Mr. Holt make in order to appease the townspeople related to his moral teachings?

7. What does the quilt left for the phantom symbolize?

8. What has been stolen from the Shipmans' storeroom and who is accused of the theft?

9. What is Asa's complaint regarding math studies at school?

10. What does Catherine see in one of Mr. Holt's newspapers that particularly upsets her?

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