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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After seeing strands of the painter's hair in the painting, Birkin realizes he had ______.
(a) Brown hair.
(b) Light hair.
(c) Black hair.
(d) Gray hair.

2. Who says that searching for a man's bones seems like a waste of money?
(a) Birkin.
(b) Keach.
(c) Kathy.
(d) Moon.

3. Who sits in the back pew when visiting Birkin?
(a) Kathy.
(b) Alice.
(c) Moon.
(d) Edgar.

4. Who leads the worship service in the church where Birkin is working?
(a) Keach.
(b) Ellerbeck.
(c) Moon.
(d) Birkin.

5. How is the August weather described?
(a) As mild.
(b) As hot and dry.
(c) As cool but humid.
(d) As unbearably humid.

6. Which of the following is not part of Birkin's daily routine during the summer in Oxgodby?
(a) Eating breakfast in the bell tower.
(b) Working until 6 in the evening.
(c) Rising at about 4 in the morning.
(d) Sharing a cup of tea with Moon.

7. What is clutching the man in the painting whose portrayal Birkin suspects is a portrait?
(a) The grim reaper.
(b) Two demons.
(c) A woman.
(d) An angel.

8. Moon thinks that the portrayal that Birkin suspects is a portrait will _______.
(a) Go unnoticed by most.
(b) Be quickly destroyed.
(c) Be like many of the other portraits Birkin will uncover.
(d) Cause quite a stir.

9. How many times does Birkin visit Oxgodby after his summer there?
(a) 10.
(b) 25.
(c) 0.
(d) 1.

10. What does Birkin find out about Moon from the man he meets in Ripon who was also in the war?
(a) That Moon is a schizophrenic.
(b) That Moon is homosexual.
(c) That Moon is a pathological liar.
(d) That Moon was not in the war.

11. Moon likes that who are the only people that know about how great the painting is?
(a) Kathy, Moon, and Birkin.
(b) Alice, Moon, and Birkin.
(c) Moon and Birkin.
(d) Kathy, Alice, Moon, and Birkin.

12. What wakes up Birkin on Sunday mornings?
(a) Mossop ringing the church bell.
(b) Alice knocking on the door..
(c) The opening of the church door.
(d) Shouting in the graveyard.

13. Who does Birkin tell Keach he will contact if he tries to prevent him from finishing his work?
(a) The executors of Miss Hebron's will.
(b) Alice.
(c) The police.
(d) The Ellerbecks.

14. What material did the original artist of the painting use on the nobles' clothes?
(a) Gold leaf.
(b) Cinnabr.
(c) Blue lapiz.
(d) Black paint.

15. About how tall does Birkin think the painter must have been?
(a) 5.5 feet.
(b) 4.5 feet.
(c) 6 feet.
(d) 5 feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the families eat at the Sunday School treat?

2. Before telling Alice that he finds her attractive, who does Birkin also say finds her attractive?

3. Who interrupts Birkin and Alice right after he tells her that he finds her attractive?

4. Who does Birkin think assumes that Keach will paint back over the painting as soon as he can?

5. How does Birkin think the painter died?

(see the answer keys)

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