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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 Thomas Birkin look at when he arrives at the beginning of the novel?
(a) A map.
(b) A book.
(c) A letter.
(d) A compass.

2. 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) Purity.
(b) Modesty.
(c) Glory.
(d) Faith.

3. Who is paying for Birkin's work in the church?
(a) Charles Moon.
(b) Keach.
(c) The executors of Miss Hebron's will.
(d) The church.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Birkin forget when he visits the Keaches to ask for his first installment?

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

3. Birkin speculates that the painter used paint from what kind of a job he had been working on?

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

5. Whose grave is Moon looking for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. Who answers the door when Birkin visits the vicarage? What does this person talk about?

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

9. How many times has Birkin performed the task of uncovering a wall painting?

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

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