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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What object in the church does Birkin ask Keach if he can use?
(a) Paper.
(b) The stove.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Paintbrushes.

3. What condition must be met in order for the church to receive the money?
(a) Miss Hebron must be given a respectable burial.
(b) Repairs must be made.
(c) Piers Hebron's body must be found.
(d) The painting must be uncovered.

4. How is the roof of the church at which Thomas Birkin arrives described?
(a) Flat.
(b) Leaking.
(c) Pointy.
(d) Not leaking.

5. 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 see how Birkin's work was coming.
(c) She was curious about the painting and has snuck away.
(d) Her dad told her to bring Birkin some lunch.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Birkin respond to the invitation to Sunday School?

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

3. How old does Birkin tell Keach he thinks the wall painting is?

4. Who is the narrator of the book?

5. Which of the following is NOT Birkin's idea of what the final picture of the painting will look like?

Short Essay Questions

1. While Thomas Birkin is at the station at the beginning of the novel, who does he see looking at him? What does he imagine that this person is thinking?

2. How is the pay for uncovering the wall painting and why does Birkin accept the job at the church?

3. What is Birkin's aim regarding the painting? What idea does he have of the final picture?

4. What does Keach ask Birkin about the wall painting? How does Birkin respond?

5. Why does Kathy Ellerbeck come to visit Birkin at the church? What does she bring?

6. How does Thomas Birkin arrive in Oxgodby, England? What does he do when he first gets there?

7. Who gave money to the church in a will? What stipulations do these funds carry?

8. Why is Birkin hired and who is paying him for his work?

9. Where does Moon pitch his tent? What explanation does Moon give Birkin for this placement?

10. Describe what Birkin sees when he first enters the church.

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