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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the law, if a man over twenty-one works in the mine for ________________, he becomes the property of the owner.
(a) Ten years.
(b) A month.
(c) Six months.
(d) A year and a day.

2. What is Jay Jamisson hoping his father will give him as a birthday gift?
(a) A new stallion.
(b) A sugar plantation in Barbados.
(c) A seat on the company's board of directors.
(d) A country estate.

3. What does Sir George's wife want him to give to Jay as a wedding gift?
(a) A stable of horses.
(b) A Scottish country estate.
(c) The Barbados property.
(d) A home in Edinburgh.

4. How old was Mack when he first started working in the mines?
(a) 7.
(b) 10.
(c) 19.
(d) 16.

5. In what country does the novel primarily take place?
(a) Germany.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Austria.
(d) Scotland.

6. Lizzie dresses as a man to attend a _______________.
(a) Labor union meeting.
(b) Cock fight.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Political rally.

7. With whom does Mack live when he escapes?
(a) Eddie.
(b) Sloan.
(c) Patrick.
(d) Dermot.

8. What does Jay get for his birthday from his father?
(a) A mine.
(b) Gold bricks.
(c) An estate.
(d) A horse.

9. Where is Mack taken after he is captured?
(a) The dungeon at Jamison Castle.
(b) A cave.
(c) Jail.
(d) The larder at Jamison Castle.

10. When does Jay's mother say she began to hate her husband?
(a) When he started to favor Robert.
(b) The first time he beat her.
(c) When he took a mistress.
(d) When he took her away from her village.

11. Who is the girl that Mack and Dermot rescue in Chapter 15?
(a) Peggy.
(b) Jane.
(c) Maddie.
(d) Aggie.

12. What does the owner of High Glen use as a paperweight?
(a) Beer stein.
(b) Lump of coal.
(c) Iron collar.
(d) Gold brick.

13. What surprises Lizzie about the mines?
(a) The number of women working there.
(b) How cold it is.
(c) How quiet it is.
(d) How dark it is.

14. Who is the lawyer whom Mack sees in London?
(a) Philip Maguire.
(b) Edward Spence.
(c) Caspar Gordonson.
(d) Clayton Hall.

15. What news does Mack give to Jay?
(a) Jay cannot marry Esther.
(b) Mack is marrying Lizzie.
(c) Annie is dying.
(d) Mack is quitting the mine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lizzie need to do in order to view the mines?

2. Why is Mack so popular among the workers?

3. Why is Lennox upset about Mack?

4. To what city does Mack escape?

5. Whom does Annie want to marry?

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