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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3 (pages 49-74).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Birkin's wife?
(a) Vidalia.
(b) Vinny.
(c) Marie.
(d) Alice.

2. What is Emily Clough dying of?
(a) Consumption.
(b) The plague.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Tuberculosis.

3. Moon thinks that the portrayal that Birkin suspects is a portrait will _______.
(a) Be like many of the other portraits Birkin will uncover.
(b) Cause quite a stir.
(c) Be quickly destroyed.
(d) Go unnoticed by most.

4. The woman in the wall monument is described as "modestly hiding her essential _________ by hanging on tight to a shroud as she clambered from an elegant catagalgue".
(a) Faith.
(b) Purity.
(c) Modesty.
(d) Glory.

5. Moon likes that who are the only people that know about how great the painting is?
(a) Kathy, Moon, and Birkin.
(b) Alice, Moon, and Birkin.
(c) Moon and Birkin.
(d) Kathy, Alice, Moon, and Birkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What factor does Birkin base his observation on that the painting must have been hidden under the paint for a long time?

2. What is the name of the Sykes' son who died in the war?

3. What does Birkin use to mark the areas of the wall most likely to contain part of the covered painting?

4. How many solo jobs has Birkin had before undertaking the job in the church?

5. How is the church at which Thomas Birkin arrives described?

(see the answer key)

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