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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rule does Birkin tell Kathy Ellerbeck about?
(a) No one can see what he is working on.
(b) No one can climb the scaffolding.
(c) No one can enter his bedroom.
(d) No one can see him eat.

2. When Birkin further questions Moon about why he is there, he says he wants to plot out where an early ___________ stood.
(a) Monument.
(b) Mountain.
(c) Painting.
(d) Basilica.

3. What are the "dafties" in Sunday School that Birkin is supposed to help out?
(a) The drafts from the windows.
(b) The unruly children.
(c) The pretty girls.
(d) The smart children.

4. While on the ladder in the church for the first time, Thomas Birkin thinks about everything that _________ has told him.
(a) The stationmaster.
(b) Keach.
(c) Miss Hebron.
(d) Moon.

5. What does Thomas Birkin look at when he arrives at the beginning of the novel?
(a) A map.
(b) A book.
(c) A compass.
(d) A letter.

6. Who invites Birkin to Sunday School for the first time in the church?
(a) Kathy.
(b) Sara.
(c) Emily.
(d) Alice.

7. How old does Birkin tell Keach he thinks the wall painting is?
(a) He says he doesn't know.
(b) 200 years.
(c) 100 years.
(d) 50 years.

8. While Birkin and the Ellerbecks are visiting her, Emily Clough comments that she likes Kathy's __________.
(a) Shoes.
(b) Dress.
(c) Barretts.
(d) Hat.

9. Whose grave is Moon looking for?
(a) Emily Clough.
(b) Piers Hebron.
(c) Alice Keach.
(d) Laetitia Hebron.

10. What does Birkin do the first morning he wakes up in the church?
(a) Organizes his supplies.
(b) Pries open the windows.
(c) Breaks his leg.
(d) Unpacks his food.

11. Who does Moon describe as "a tall drooping man, carelessly dresses, disorganized, remote"?
(a) The pastor.
(b) The waiter.
(c) The conductor.
(d) The colonel.

12. What is the name of the church's minister?
(a) Moon.
(b) Mossop.
(c) Hebron.
(d) Keach.

13. When Thomas Birkin opens the door to the church, he discovers that it is _________.
(a) Squeaky.
(b) Heavy.
(c) Rough.
(d) Locked.

14. What condition must be met in order for the church to receive the money?
(a) Piers Hebron's body must be found.
(b) Miss Hebron must be given a respectable burial.
(c) Repairs must be made.
(d) The painting must be uncovered.

15. What is the name of the other man who Keach tells Birkin is living at the church?
(a) Hebron.
(b) Smith.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Birkin seem to have for the painting he will uncover?

2. When does Birkin first see Kathy Ellerbeck?

3. What is the name of Kathy's brother who sometimes accompanies her to the church?

4. Who is the narrator of the book?

5. Which of the following is NOT Birkin's idea of what the final picture of the painting will look like?

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