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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mary Whitney’s father lose his farm?
(a) Drought.
(b) Taken by the bank in foreclosure.
(c) Burned to punish him for being a radical.
(d) Flood.

2. What does Jordan do in his first conversation with Grace in an attempt to get her to open up?
(a) Talks mostly about himself.
(b) Gives her a book.
(c) Brings her some scones.
(d) Gives her some opium.

3. What kind of a stock investment does Dr. Jordan’s mother talk about in her letter?
(a) Hot air balloons.
(b) Timber.
(c) Automatic rifles.
(d) Sewing machines.

4. What would Mary do sometimes when the sheets were hung in the inside drying room?
(a) Swing on them.
(b) Press her face in them and moan and pretend to be a ghost.
(c) Splash water on them so they would take longer to dry.
(d) Tie the corners shut.

5. What is the first area of study in mental illness Dr. Jordan talks about on Tuesday?
(a) What he calls the material.
(b) The external sources.
(c) What he calls the intellectual.
(d) The spiritual aspects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Workman tell Dr. Jordan is most important in building an asylum?

2. What do the two guards who escort Grace to the governor’s house say is the best alcoholic drink to make a woman want sex?

3. What does Grace realize when she sees Dr. Jerome Dupont?

4. At what kind of jokes in Canada does Dr. Jordan say an American must smile?

5. To what event is Jordan invited at the governor’s house?

(see the answer key)

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