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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year is it at the beginning of Alias Grace?
(a) 1853.
(b) 1851.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1849.

2. What is the name of the prison where Grace is an inmate?
(a) Stratford Prison.
(b) Toronto Reformatory.
(c) Riker Island.
(d) Kingston Penitentiary.

3. What does Dr. Jordan say is one of Reverend Verringer’s chief faults?
(a) He demands too much from his employees.
(b) He knows nothing about the human brain.
(c) He has little education.
(d) He has a lack of wit.

4. How does McDermott kill Kinnear?
(a) Shoots him in the heart.
(b) Bashed him in the head with a sledge hammer.
(c) Breaks his neck.
(d) Slits his throat.

5. What kind of flowers are growing out of the gravel at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Petunias.
(b) Roses.
(c) Peonies.
(d) Lilies.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what kind of manufacturing does Dr. Jordan’s mother wish his to invest?

2. What does Dr. Jordan bring Grace?

3. What does McDermott do first to Nancy according to the poem?

4. What does Grace say is the reason she can be frank with Jordan?

5. What does Jordan see as the main difference between European and North American servants?

(see the answer key)

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