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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. When Thomas Birkin opens the door to the church, he discovers that it is _________.
(a) Locked.
(b) Rough.
(c) Heavy.
(d) Squeaky.

2. Where does Birkin plan to return for the winter?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Edinburgh.

3. Birkin speculates that the painter used paint from what kind of a job he had been working on?
(a) Private.
(b) Monastic.
(c) Royal.
(d) Personal.

4. While on the ladder in the church for the first time, Thomas Birkin thinks about everything that _________ has told him.
(a) The stationmaster.
(b) Moon.
(c) Miss Hebron.
(d) Keach.

5. According to Birkin's conversation with Keach, what will help or has helped Birkin decide the age of the wall painting?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Uncovering it.
(c) Carbon dating.
(d) Comparing styles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of painting does Birkin think he is working on after uncovering the figure painted at the apex of the wall?

2. What is Emily Clough dying of?

3. What does Birkin do after Keach visits him for the first time?

4. What color of robe is the figure wearing that Birkin first uncovers in the painting?

5. Who does Thomas Birkin see staring at him from the station house when he arrives?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the conversation that Keach and Birkin have regarding living arrangements.

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

4. What does Birkin think when Keach has not given him his first installment for the work on the painting? What action does he take?

5. Describe the wall monument that Birkin finds in the church.

6. 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?

7. Who do Kathy, Edgar, and Birkin visit on the way home from Sunday school? What do they give her?

8. How do Moon and Birkin respond to each other when they first meet? What do they talk about?

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

10. Describe the church in Oxgodby, England.

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