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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Grace think it is bad when a doctor is around?
(a) They do not care about poor people.
(b) They measure her head.
(c) They have terrible tasting medicine.
(d) There is always death around a doctor.

3. 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.

4. Where does Simon Jordan sneak in his house when he is a boy?
(a) The servants’ quarters.
(b) The stables.
(c) His parents’ bedroom.
(d) The kitchen.

5. 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 a lack of wit.
(d) He has little education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the governor’s oldest daughter live?

2. Why does Grace’s family leave for Canada?

3. What does the penitentiary consider to be the only remedy for the criminals there?

4. What would Mary do sometimes when the sheets were hung in the inside drying room?

5. How many siblings does Grace say she has?

(see the answer key)

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