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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 is the name of the church's minister?
(a) Mossop.
(b) Moon.
(c) Keach.
(d) Hebron.

2. What kind of painting does Birkin think the painting is bound to be?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Judgment.
(c) Ruined.
(d) Renaissance.

3. After working on the painting for several days, Birkin feels he is becoming ________ with the painting.
(a) Interested.
(b) Tired.
(c) Bored.
(d) Obsessed.

4. What does Birkin do the first morning he wakes up in the church?
(a) Breaks his leg.
(b) Organizes his supplies.
(c) Pries open the windows.
(d) Unpacks his food.

5. What does Kathy tell Birkin on the way home from visiting Emily Clough?
(a) That Emily will not make it another week.
(b) That Emily is not as weak as she looks.
(c) That Emily knows she is dying.
(d) That Emily thinks she is healthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who argues that it is an outrage that someone as beautiful as Alice is married to Keach?

2. Birkin and Moon take an immediate ________ to each other.

3. 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".

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. How does Thomas Birkin arrive in Oxgodby, England? What does he do when he first gets there?

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

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

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

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

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