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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 does Alice Keach offer to bring Birkin at the church the first time she visits?
(a) More supplies.
(b) A rug.
(c) Soup.
(d) Books.

2. What is the name of the other man who Keach tells Birkin is living at the church?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Hebron.
(c) Smith.
(d) Moon.

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

4. From what century are the tombstones in the church graveyard?
(a) 19th.
(b) 17th.
(c) 18th.
(d) 16th.

5. Who is Mr. Dowthwaite?
(a) Kathy's father.
(b) The teacher at the local schoolhouse.
(c) The pastor at the Ellerbeck's church.
(d) The superintendent of the Sunday School.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After Moon and Birkin meet for the first time, Birkin thinks in hindsight that Moon knows ________.

3. What does Birkin seem to have for the painting he will uncover?

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

5. Why does Thomas Birkin take the job in the church?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Birkin reveal first in the painting? What meaning does he draw from this discovery?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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