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

2. As he arrives at the church, Thomas Birkin speculates that the area has probably not seen a medieval __________ boom.
(a) Wool.
(b) House.
(c) Art.
(d) Book.

3. What is the name of Kathy's brother who sometimes accompanies her to the church?
(a) Alex.
(b) Charles.
(c) Richard.
(d) Edgar.

4. What is the name of the woman whom Birkin finds a wall monument of in the church?
(a) Laetitia Hebron.
(b) Kathy Ellerbeck.
(c) Alice Keach.
(d) Emily Clough.

5. In what city does "A Month in the Country" open?
(a) Oxgodby.
(b) London.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Cambridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who walks up while Birkin is on the ladder in the church for the first time?

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

3. What does Kathy Ellerbeck's father tell her she can bring to the church?

4. When Thomas Birkin opens the door to the church, he discovers that it is _________.

5. In the first section of the novel, which character affects the plot even in death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who approaches Thomas Birkin when he first arrives in Oxgodby, England? What does this person offer Birkin? How does Birkin respond?

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

8. 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?

9. What does Birkin think about Alice Keach after their first meeting?

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

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