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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Afterward".
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why does Mary believe that people should not talk about seeing ghosts?
(a) It makes people wonder about your sanity.
(b) It is bad manners.
(c) It is dangerous.
(d) It frightens the ghosts away.
2. Why is the information about Bob Elwell's slow death so significant to Mary?
(a) She cannot help being glad that the man who made her husband suffer also suffered.
(b) She is devastated about how much suffering her husband caused.
(c) She realizes that Ned lied when he told her that everything was resolved.
(d) She realizes that the timing lines up with the sightings of the ghost.
3. From what period is Ned and Mary's new home?
(a) Tudor.
(b) Regency.
(c) Georgian.
(d) Edwardian.
4. When Mary is waiting in the library at the beginning of the story, where is Ned?
(a) Taking a walk.
(b) Finishing his lunch.
(c) In town on an errand.
(d) Working in his office.
5. For the past week, what has Mary been assuming is the cause for Ned's need to be alone and his odd mood?
(a) She thinks that his book is not going very well.
(b) She thinks that he regrets moving to England.
(c) She thinks that he has seen the ghost.
(d) She thinks that he misses having a regular job to go to.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Mary thinks back on the October visit from the mysterious man, she thinks that it "had no mark of the portentous" (86). What does this mean she felt about the visit at the time that it happened?
2. What detail does the narrator relate as evidence of how much Ned and Mary have yearned for a life like the one they have in England?
3. What does Mary find in the envelope addressed to her?
4. What did Mary and Ned discover about their roof?
5. When they are all laughing about the idea of a ghost, what does it mean that Mary "noted a certain flatness of tone in Alida's answering hilarity" (83)?
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