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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 Keach hope that Birkin has made?
(a) Many people happy with his work.
(b) A ladder to use in the church.
(c) A good living.
(d) Other living arrangements.

2. Who does Thomas Birkin see staring at him from the station house when he arrives?
(a) A woman.
(b) An old man.
(c) A girl.
(d) A boy.

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

4. Birkin speculates that the painter used paint from what kind of a job he had been working on?
(a) Personal.
(b) Private.
(c) Royal.
(d) Monastic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the roof of the church at which Thomas Birkin arrives described?

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

3. Why is the grave Moon is looking for outside the graveyard?

4. What kind of tower does the church include with its stone walls?

5. Who is glad for the chance to at least look upon Alice and admire her beauty?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does Birkin give for the observation the painting is hidden under paint for a long time? What are some of the reasons he considers the painting is covered so quickly?

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

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

4. Describe the church in Oxgodby, England.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why is Birkin in the graveyard when Alice Keach comes to visit? What is he doing there?

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