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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. Moon likes that who are the only people that know about how great the painting is?
(a) Moon and Birkin.
(b) Kathy, Alice, Moon, and Birkin.
(c) Alice, Moon, and Birkin.
(d) Kathy, Moon, and Birkin.

2. What does Birkin do when Alice does not show up in church on Sunday morning?
(a) Sets off on a walk.
(b) Disrupts the church service.
(c) Does not leave his room.
(d) Writes Vinny a letter.

3. What do the families eat at the Sunday School treat?
(a) Cookies and punch.
(b) Cucumber sandwiches and tea.
(c) Rabbit legs and biscuits.
(d) Hard-boiled eggs and tomato sandwiches.

4. What does Alice leave Birkin the day she comes up the ladder and scares Birkin?
(a) Eggs.
(b) Books.
(c) Bread.
(d) Paper.

5. After returning to the Ellerbecks', Birkin says he is not cut out to be what?
(a) A painter.
(b) A bicyclist.
(c) A preacher.
(d) A boyfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as an "impresario conjuring and teasing"?

2. What does Alice ask to see when she visits Birkin for the final time and brings him apples?

3. What material did the original artist of the painting use on the nobles' clothes?

4. What is the name of Birkin's wife?

5. What do the Ellerbecks go to purchase in Ripon?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Moon respond when Birkin tells him that Keach has told him that he is finished with the painting?

2. Describe the final interaction between Alice and Birkin.

3. What feelings does Moon's inquiry about anything going on between Birkin and Alice trigger in Birkin?

4. What story does Moon tell about one of his acquaintances when he and Birkin are discussing the war?

5. Where do Moon and Birkin go to visit Mossop? What do they do there? What do they eat afterward?

6. After the service in Barton Ferry, with whom does Birkin have tea? What does he see at their home that upsets him?

7. What is the source of Birkin's contentment in August in Oxgodby?

8. Describe the summer in Oxgodby according to Birkin.

9. Describe Birkin's involvement in the service at Keach's church.

10. Who does Birkin run into in Ripon that is also in the war? What does this person tell Birkin about Moon?

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