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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occupations does Kathy suggest for Birkin?
(a) Gravedigger or banker.
(b) Painter or baker.
(c) Rent collector or schoolteacher.
(d) Barber or gardener.

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

3. What does Birkin liken to hell in his own mind?
(a) Painting.
(b) His work.
(c) Keach.
(d) The war.

4. What do the Ellerbecks go to purchase in Ripon?
(a) Groceries.
(b) Dresses.
(c) A pipe organ.
(d) A cake.

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

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

7. Birkin says the paint is made out of ________ materials.
(a) Average.
(b) A variety of.
(c) Excellent.
(d) Unexpected.

8. What does the epitaph say on the tomb that Moon finds?
(a) The painter in all of us let us see.
(b) I of all men most wretched.
(c) I the devil's man.
(d) A good man rests here.

9. What does Birkin decide to do after finding the portrayal that Birkin suspects is a portrait?
(a) Look at the whole painting.
(b) Cover the painting again.
(c) Destroy the painting.
(d) Stop his work on the painting.

10. How does Alic respond after Birkin tells her that he finds her attractive?
(a) With a nod.
(b) With a kiss.
(c) By crying.
(d) By running off.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. One week Mr. Ellerbeck is scheduled to preach at both Barton Ferry and ____________.

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

4. What does Alice leave Birkin the day she comes up the ladder and scares Birkin?

5. What does Birkin mistake for Alice in her bedroom when he passes the vicarage?

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