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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. 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) It was not nearly as lucrative a deal as Ned pretended.
(c) Ned committed a crime in order to make the deal.
(d) Ned's actions caused the mine to go bankrupt.

2. What explanation does Ned give Mary at the time of the mysterious visit in October?
(a) It was the boyfriend of Trimmle, the parlor maid.
(b) It was a tourist who had heard stories about their ghost.
(c) He refuses to talk about the incident.
(d) It was Peters, the man working on their stable drains.

3. On that evening in the library in section "II," what does Mary see has happened when she looks up from preparing the tea?
(a) Trimmle has been standing in the doorway, eavesdropping.
(b) Somehow, all of the lamps have been blown out at once.
(c) Ned is staring in horror out the library window.
(d) Ned's face has changed and he looks completely himself again.

4. When Ned speeds off to talk with the mysterious visitor on that day in October, why does it take Mary so long to follow?
(a) She is too frightened of the ghost to move, at first.
(b) She is dizzy and has to move carefully.
(c) Ned tells her not to follow him.
(d) One of the heels of her shoes has come loose.

5. When the story refers to "Boyne," who or what is being referred to?
(a) Mary.
(b) Ned.
(c) The house.
(d) Ned's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 84, the reader learns about the "prodigious windfall" that Ned and Mary experienced. Where did this "prodigious windfall" come from?

2. On page 84, the narrator links isolated environments to "acuities of emotion." What are "acuities of emotion"?

3. Why are Ned and Mary so interested in living in an isolated location?

4. Why is the information about Bob Elwell's slow death so significant to Mary?

5. What is the only descriptive detail that the maid is able to give Mary about the stranger's appearance?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the narrative present at the beginning of the story, where is Mary and what is she doing?

2. What is Mary doing on the morning that Ned disappears?

3. What does Alida Stair tell the Boynes about Lyng?

4. What draws the Boynes to England?

5. After she finds out that he has gone out with the mysterious man and not yet returned, why is Mary immediately alarmed?

6. What horrifying chain of events does Mary understand once she sees Bob Elwell's picture?

7. What news does Mary learn from a newspaper clipping that someone sends her in the mail, and why is she so upset by it?

8. What happens with the mysterious visitor on the day that Ned disappears?

9. How has Ned's mood changed on the morning after he and Mary first discussed the Blue Star lawsuit, and what does Mary believe changed his mood?

10. What does Ned tell Mary about the Blue Star lawsuit?

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