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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4 (pages 74-111).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What view does Birkin have from where he sleeps at the church?
(a) A view of the graveyard.
(b) A view of the school.
(c) A view of the parish house.
(d) A view of the village.

2. According to Birkin's conversation with Keach, what will help or has helped Birkin decide the age of the wall painting?
(a) Comparing styles.
(b) Carbon dating.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Uncovering it.

3. What part of the painting was covered first?
(a) The portrayal of the devil.
(b) The figure of Jesus Christ.
(c) Portrayals of demons.
(d) The man that Birking suspects is a portrait.

4. What does Birkin use to mark the areas of the wall most likely to contain part of the covered painting?
(a) A sheet.
(b) Paint remover.
(c) Chalk.
(d) A grid.

5. What is the name of the woman whom Birkin finds a wall monument of in the church?
(a) Alice Keach.
(b) Laetitia Hebron.
(c) Kathy Ellerbeck.
(d) Emily Clough.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Ellerbecks go to purchase in Ripon?

2. When Thomas Birkin opens the door to the church, he discovers that it is _________.

3. How does Birkin travel to Barton Ferry?

4. Who says that searching for a man's bones seems like a waste of money?

5. What does Thomas Birkin look at when he arrives at the beginning of the novel?

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