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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the families eat at the Sunday School treat?
(a) Hard-boiled eggs and tomato sandwiches.
(b) Cucumber sandwiches and tea.
(c) Rabbit legs and biscuits.
(d) Cookies and punch.

2. Who does Birkin think assumes that Keach will paint back over the painting as soon as he can?
(a) Mossop.
(b) Moon.
(c) Kathy.
(d) Alice.

3. Where do Birkin and Moon begin looking for the bones of Miss Hebron's ancestor?
(a) At the depression Moon pointed out.
(b) Under the tent where Moon has been living.
(c) In a far away field.
(d) In the graveyard.

4. What is the man's name who Birkin meets in Ripon who was also in the war?
(a) Melvin.
(b) Morton.
(c) Montague.
(d) Milburn.

5. What does the letter that Birkin receives from Vinny say?
(a) She wants him to come home.
(b) She would prefer he stay in Oxgodby.
(c) She wants a divorce.
(d) She is pregnant.

6. How long ago was Miss Hebron's ancestor buried?
(a) 10-100 years.
(b) 500-600 years.
(c) 300-400 years.
(d) 100-200 years.

7. Which of the following characteristics does not describe the portrayal that Birkin suspects might be a portrait in the larger painting?
(a) Bright red hair.
(b) A crescent shaped scar on the man's forehead.
(c) The man is wearing a gold necklace.
(d) It is more detailed than the rest of the portrayals.

8. How does Birkin feel about working in the summer at Oxgodby?
(a) Angry.
(b) It is too hot.
(c) Content.
(d) Exhausted.

9. What do the Ellerbecks and Birkin find out when they return to Oxgodby after the Sunday School treat?
(a) Emily Clough has died.
(b) Moon has broken his leg.
(c) Mossop has finished his job.
(d) The church has burned down.

10. What type of church does Birkin attend on Sunday evenings?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Episcopal.
(c) Baptist.
(d) Wesleyan.

11. How does Moon feel about Birkin and Alice not being romantically involved?
(a) He is relieved.
(b) He is angry.
(c) He is excited.
(d) He is saddened.

12. Who is described as an "impresario conjuring and teasing"?
(a) Birkin.
(b) Alice.
(c) Kathy.
(d) Moon.

13. Who does Birkin see in town when he and the Ellerbecks go to Ripon?
(a) Moon.
(b) Emily.
(c) Alice.
(d) Mossop.

14. Who greets Birkin when he arrives at the church in Barton Ferry?
(a) An old woman.
(b) The preacher.
(c) A child.
(d) The organist.

15. How did Mrs. Ellerbeck's father die?
(a) He fell into a pond and drowned.
(b) He shot himself after drinking.
(c) He got alcohol poisoning.
(d) He fell down stairs after drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leaves the door slightly ajar when visiting Birkin?

2. What do Moon and Birkin help Mossop with when they visit him in the field?

3. What does the epitaph say on the tomb that Moon finds?

4. What wakes up Birkin on Sunday mornings?

5. Why is Moon not allowed to go on the Sunday School treat?

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