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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. The woman in the wall monument is described as "modestly hiding her essential _________ by hanging on tight to a shroud as she clambered from an elegant catagalgue".
(a) Glory.
(b) Purity.
(c) Faith.
(d) Modesty.

2. How is the church at which Thomas Birkin arrives described?
(a) Large.
(b) Inviting.
(c) Modest.
(d) Decorative.

3. Who offers Thomas Birkin an umbrella when he arrives in town?
(a) The reverend.
(b) The stationmaster.
(c) The cab driver.
(d) The painter.

4. What does Moon say he is doing in the meadow next door when he first meets Birkin?
(a) Celebrating.
(b) Writing.
(c) Digging.
(d) Resting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Birkin feel about the painting although he cannot see it?

2. What kind of tower does the church include with its stone walls?

3. Who invites Birkin to Sunday School for the first time in the church?

4. When Birkin further questions Moon about why he is there, he says he wants to plot out where an early ___________ stood.

5. When Birkin does not receive his first installment, he is upset because he doesn't have money to buy what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Birkin respond to Kathy Ellerbeck's invitation to Sunday School? What does she say he can do there?

2. What is attached to the church? What does it contain?

3. What does Birkin think about after Keach leaves in Section 1? What decisions does he come to?

4. Describe Kathy Ellerbeck according to Birkin's observations.

5. What new character does Keach reveal as he and Birkin discuss living arrangements and where does this character live?

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

8. Describe Birkin's analysis of his financial situation as he sits in the bell tower at the beginning of Section 2.

9. Who originally discovers and takes interest in the painting? What arrangements does this person make regarding the painting?

10. Why is Birkin in the graveyard when Alice Keach comes to visit? What is he doing there?

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