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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) The Colonel.
(c) Moon.
(d) Keach.

2. What is Moon's tent pitched over?
(a) Rock.
(b) Flat area.
(c) Hole.
(d) Garden.

3. What does Moon invite Birkin to his tent for the first time?
(a) A debate.
(b) Help with repairs.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) Afternoon tea.

4. Who is the narrator of the book?
(a) Thomas Birkin.
(b) Charles Moon.
(c) Miss Hebron.
(d) J.G. Keach.

5. What rule does Birkin tell Kathy Ellerbeck about?
(a) No one can enter his bedroom.
(b) No one can climb the scaffolding.
(c) No one can see him eat.
(d) No one can see what he is working on.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Kathy's brother who sometimes accompanies her to the church?

2. What does Alice Keach wear that disguises her age when she comes to visit Birkin?

3. What is the name of the woman whom Birkin finds a wall monument of in the church?

4. What does Moon say he is doing in the meadow next door when he first meets Birkin?

5. How is the pay for uncovering the painting?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Birkin specifically ask Keach if he can use? How does Keach respond?

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

7. Describe the church in Oxgodby, England.

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

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

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