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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Birkin and Moon have for lunch with Mossop and his wife when they go to visit?
(a) Bread and cheese.
(b) Rabbit and potato pie.
(c) Squirrel stew.
(d) Chicken sandwiches.

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

3. Before telling Alice that he finds her attractive, who does Birkin also say finds her attractive?
(a) Moon.
(b) Mossop.
(c) Mrs. Ellerbeck.
(d) Kathy.

4. 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 a pathological liar.
(c) That Moon was not in the war.
(d) That Moon is homosexual.

5. Who does Birkin attend church with and have dinner with on Sunday nights?
(a) The Keaches.
(b) The Cloughs.
(c) The Ellerbecks.
(d) Moon.

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

7. What do Moon and Birkin help Mossop with when they visit him in the field?
(a) Writing a book.
(b) Planting.
(c) Building a shack.
(d) The sheaves.

8. What does Keach do the day after Birkin tells Alice that she is attractive?
(a) He kills Birkin.
(b) He banishes Birkin from the town.
(c) He punches Birkin in the face.
(d) He shows up with Birkin's money.

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

10. What does Birkin wish he had done after Alice leaves for the last time?
(a) Tell her he ruined his life.
(b) Give her a photograph of the painting.
(c) Kiss her.
(d) Tell her he loves her.

11. What does Birkin do when Alice does not show up in church on Sunday morning?
(a) Sets off on a walk.
(b) Does not leave his room.
(c) Writes Vinny a letter.
(d) Disrupts the church service.

12. What does Alice tell Birkin has not been easy on Keach?
(a) The war.
(b) Work.
(c) The world.
(d) The village.

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

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

15. Why doesn't Birkin pursue a romantic relationship with Alice?
(a) He is afraid of Keach.
(b) She is too callous.
(c) They are not in love.
(d) They are both married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characterizes the damned souls in the original painting?

2. What is the name of Birkin's wife?

3. Who is described as an "impresario conjuring and teasing"?

4. Who says that searching for a man's bones seems like a waste of money?

5. What is the name of the girl who asks Birkin to tea at her parents' house after church in Barton Ferry?

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