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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Birkin first see Kathy Ellerbeck?
(a) Visiting a grave in the graveyard.
(b) At the train station upon his arrival.
(c) When she visits the church.
(d) When he visits her house.

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

3. What method of transportation does Thomas Birkin use to arrive in town?
(a) Car.
(b) Airplane.
(c) Train.
(d) Carriage.

4. Who does the money come from for the painting to be uncovered?
(a) Miss Hebron.
(b) Piers Hebron.
(c) Colonel Hebron.
(d) Rev. Hebron.

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. Why does Kathy Ellerbeck tell Birkin that she has come to visit the church?
(a) To set up for Sunday School.
(b) Her dad told her to bring Birkin some lunch.
(c) She was curious about the painting and has snuck away.
(d) Her dad told her to see how Birkin's work was coming.

11. 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 does not trust the man offering the umbrella.
(c) He says he enjoys the rain.
(d) He says he does not accept gifts from strangers.

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

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

14. As he arrives at the church, Thomas Birkin speculates that the area has probably not seen a medieval __________ boom.
(a) Book.
(b) House.
(c) Art.
(d) Wool.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Section 1, Keach comes across as harsh and unyielding in relation to _______.

2. From what century are the tombstones in the church graveyard?

3. Why does Birkin have to stay at the church?

4. What does Alice Keach offer to bring Birkin at the church the first time she visits?

5. While on the ladder in the church for the first time, Thomas Birkin thinks about everything that _________ has told him.

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