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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what day is Grace now counting her days?
(a) From the first day she has met with Dr. Jordan.
(b) She does not count her days.
(c) From the first day in Canada.
(d) From the first day she was brought to the governor’s house.

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

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

4. What does Grace think McDermott might as well have been when the doctors got hold of his dead body?
(a) A lump of earth.
(b) Nothing, she did not think about that.
(c) A beef cow.
(d) Salted bacon.

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

6. Why does Effie try to hang herself?
(a) Her husband leaves her.
(b) Her boyfriend dies in prison.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) Her father abuses her badly.

7. How old is Grace at the beginning of Alias Grace?
(a) 23.
(b) 24.
(c) 20.
(d) 21.

8. What book does the governor’s wife have that tells of fashion in the United States?
(a) The Ladies Home Journal.
(b) Godey’s Ladies’ Books.
(c) The Fashion and Style Display Art.
(d) Blackwell’s Dresses and Accessories.

9. How many siblings does Grace say she has?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 7.

10. What does Grace’s mother say when she sees three crows on the ship they are taking to Canada?
(a) It is bad luck and means death.
(b) It is good luck.
(c) They will leave when the albatross comes.
(d) Someone must be feeding them.

11. What does Grace tell Jordan she will finish that day when she meets with him at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Her fifteenth year in prison.
(b) The cloak she is making her sister.
(c) Cleaning the downstairs of the house.
(d) The quilt square in her hand.

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

13. At what hotel do McDermott and Grace stop when fleeing Canada?
(a) The Harvest Bell.
(b) The Lewiston Hotel.
(c) Bellington’s.
(d) The Hyatt.

14. What happens to Mrs. Humphreys’s housekeeper?
(a) She moves to get married.
(b) She quits.
(c) Nothing.
(d) She dies.

15. What did they do with McDermott’s head after he was hanged?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Stuck it on a pike outside the jail.
(c) Made a plaster cast of it.
(d) Buried it with the body.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poem say is how Grace convinced McDermott to murder?

2. What does Nancy say she will give Grace if Grace will not kill her, according to the poem?

3. How much of her first month wages did Grace give her father?

4. Who is Mrs. Parkinson’s housekeeper to whom Grace is introduced?

5. How does Mary die?

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