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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the pay for uncovering the painting?
(a) Bad.
(b) Surprisingly high.
(c) Nonexistant.
(d) Unexpected.

2. In what city does "A Month in the Country" open?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Oxgodby.
(c) Oxford.
(d) London.

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

4. What does Birkin seem to have for the painting he will uncover?
(a) Passion.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Depression.

5. Who argues that it is an outrage that someone as beautiful as Alice is married to Keach?
(a) Birkin.
(b) Moon.
(c) Kathy.
(d) Richard.

6. How does Birkin respond to the invitation to Sunday School?
(a) He asks if he can bring a friend.
(b) He says he will not go.
(c) He asks if he is too old.
(d) He immediately agrees to attend.

7. What does Emily Clough want to get with the S's and stars she has collected?
(a) New ribbons for her hair.
(b) A notebook to record her diary.
(c) A collection of homilies.
(d) A copy of The Forgotten Garden.

8. Who does not want Birkin working on the painting in the church?
(a) The church.
(b) Miss Hebron.
(c) Keach.
(d) Charles Moon.

9. From what century are the tombstones in the church graveyard?
(a) 17th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 18th.
(d) 16th.

10. Who offers Thomas Birkin an umbrella when he arrives in town?
(a) The stationmaster.
(b) The reverend.
(c) The painter.
(d) The cab driver.

11. What does Moon invite Birkin to his tent for the first time?
(a) Help with repairs.
(b) A debate.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) Afternoon tea.

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

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

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

15. What does Birkin do after Keach visits him for the first time?
(a) Climbs the ladder.
(b) Goes outside.
(c) Prays at the altar.
(d) Visits the graveyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Thomas Birkin enters the church for the first time, he finds that it has what type of floor?

2. Why is the grave Moon is looking for outside the graveyard?

3. Whose grave is Moon looking for?

4. What view does Birkin have from where he sleeps at the church?

5. What fills the chancel's arch in the church?

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