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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Afterward".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ned is still gone by the time Mary finishes lunch, where does she decide he must be?
(a) She decides that he must have gone for his afternoon walk a little early.
(b) She decides that he must have walked the visitor back to the train station.
(c) She decides that he must have gone into town to run an errand.
(d) She decides that he has finally left her.

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

3. From what period is Ned and Mary's new home?
(a) Regency.
(b) Georgian.
(c) Tudor.
(d) Edwardian.

4. When does Mary first realize that Ned is missing?
(a) When she tries to find him to tell him that lunch is ready.
(b) When the stranger reappears and asks for him again.
(c) When Trimmle comes in to ask her whether she has seen Ned.
(d) When the boiler repairman asks to speak with him.

5. Mary thinks about the "latent" significance of a piece of information on page 83. What kind of meaning does this information have?
(a) Meaning that stays with a person and is hard to "shake."
(b) Meaning that was always there but takes time to emerge.
(c) Meaning that seems positive at first but later reveals a negative side.
(d) Meaning that reveals a hidden aspect of the speaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Mary thinks more about the house and its ghost, what does she begin to wonder?

2. What does Mary suddenly remember finding one day in October?

3. What does Mary find in the envelope addressed to her?

4. What does Ned say, on page 83, must be true for him to believe a house is old?

5. For how many years did Ned and Mary live in the American Midwest while Ned worked as an engineer?

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