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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Kathy's brother who sometimes accompanies her to the church?
(a) Charles.
(b) Richard.
(c) Alex.
(d) Edgar.

2. Who walks up while Birkin is on the ladder in the church for the first time?
(a) The Colonel.
(b) Keach.
(c) Moon.
(d) Miss Hebron.

3. Why does Thomas Birkin refuse the umbrella he is offered at the station?
(a) He says he will dry off at the church.
(b) He says he enjoys the rain.
(c) He says he does not trust the man offering the umbrella.
(d) He says he does not accept gifts from strangers.

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

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

6. What does Kathy Ellerbeck's father tell her she can bring to the church?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Her paintbrushes.
(c) Flowers.
(d) A gramophone.

7. What kind of tower does the church include with its stone walls?
(a) An ordinate tower.
(b) A purple tower.
(c) A squat tower.
(d) A tall tower.

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

9. What object in the church does Birkin ask Keach if he can use?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Paintbrushes.
(c) The stove.
(d) Paper.

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

11. What type of painting does Birkin think he is working on after uncovering the figure painted at the apex of the wall?
(a) A Nativity scene.
(b) A Judgment work.
(c) A Pastoral scene.
(d) An Easter work.

12. What is Birkin hired to do?
(a) To repair the church roof.
(b) To repair a painting.
(c) To uncover a painting.
(d) To paint a mural.

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

14. What kind of painting does Birkin think the painting is bound to be?
(a) Ruined.
(b) Judgment.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Renaissance.

15. What does Kathy tell Birkin on the way home from visiting Emily Clough?
(a) That Emily knows she is dying.
(b) That Emily thinks she is healthy.
(c) That Emily will not make it another week.
(d) That Emily is not as weak as she looks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is paying for Birkin's work in the church?

2. Where is Keach not fond of Birkin living?

3. When does Birkin first see Kathy Ellerbeck?

4. Who argues that it is an outrage that someone as beautiful as Alice is married to Keach?

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

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