1. When Ned begins to read the newspaper in the library in section "II," he tries to sound casual as he asks Mary a question. What is the question?
(a) He asks if she ever wonders exactly how he made the money they used to buy the house.
(b) He asks if she knows how long "afterward" it is when people realize they have seen the ghost.
(c) He asks if Mary remembers seeing the ghost in October.
(d) He asks if the mysterious stranger has come back to the house at any point.

2. On page 84, the reader learns about the "prodigious windfall" that Ned and Mary experienced. Where did this "prodigious windfall" come from?
(a) The Waukesha Sentinel.
(b) The Blue Star Mine.
(c) The death of their cousin Hugo.
(d) Ned's engineering job.

3. What is Ned's joking theory about why the ghost is so hard to see?
(a) It will not see you without an appointment.
(b) The house is deliberately keeping them from seeing its ghost.
(c) It has too much competition from other "ghostly" things.
(d) It is shy.

4. Ned asks Alida a question about the ghost's "signalement" (84). What is he asking about?
(a) Its movements and habits.
(b) Its physical description.
(c) Its motivations.
(d) Its background.

5. What does Mary learn about the Blue Star Mine deal from her visitor in section "V"?
(a) Ned cheated Bob Elwell in order to make more money from it.
(b) Ned's actions caused the mine to go bankrupt.
(c) It was not nearly as lucrative a deal as Ned pretended.
(d) Ned committed a crime in order to make the deal.