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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What year is it at the beginning of Alias Grace?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1849.
2. What does the penitentiary consider to be the only remedy for the criminals there?
(a) Thrashing and religion.
(b) Keeping them isolated.
(c) Bad food and a lot of work.
(d) Good nutrition and the Bible.
3. Where does Grace work at the prison?
(a) In the governor’s home.
(b) In the sewing center.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In the laundry.
4. Who does Grace say tells people Grace is good and no trouble?
(a) The night watchman.
(b) No one.
(c) Dr. Dermont.
(d) The governor’s wife.
5. 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) They will leave when the albatross comes.
(c) It is good luck.
(d) Someone must be feeding them.
6. What does Mary tell Grace is the reason the servants use the back stairs?
(a) Because the servants can talk amongst themselves without the rich hearing.
(b) So they won't be seen.
(c) Because the back stairs are the shortest way to anywhere and it saves on servants’ legs.
(d) Because the rich people need to use the front stairs so they won’t make a nuisance of themselves.
7. What color and design is on the dress Nancy wears in Grace’s dream?
(a) Pale with pink rosebuds.
(b) White with embroidered horses around the bottom.
(c) Navy blue with boats on it.
(d) Scarlet with green leaves.
8. How much does Grace tell Jordan about her dream of the previous night?
(a) The beginning.
(b) The end.
(c) None of it.
(d) All of it.
9. How much of her first month wages did Grace give her father?
(a) A half.
(b) A quarter.
(c) all of them.
(d) None.
10. What does Jordan place in front of Grace at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) A hat.
(b) A potato.
(c) A book.
(d) An orange.
11. Under what name does Grace register at the hotel?
(a) Grace Newman.
(b) Nancy Montgomery.
(c) Mary Kinnear.
(d) Mary Whitney.
12. What kind of flowers are growing out of the gravel at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Petunias.
(b) Roses.
(c) Lilies.
(d) Peonies.
13. Why does the governor’s wife not allow Grace the run of the house in Chapter 4?
(a) She is afraid Grace will have another fit.
(b) She does not want Grace to see Dr. Jordan without supervision.
(c) Grace is a prisoner, not a guest.
(d) It is being renovated.
14. What does Nancy say she will give Grace if Grace will not kill her, according to the poem?
(a) Three dresses.
(b) A horse and money to leave.
(c) Nancy will leave and Grace can have Kinnear.
(d) A purse of gold.
15. Where does Grace say it was that she stopped sharing her thoughts?
(a) When working at Kinnear’s house.
(b) At the prison.
(c) At the asylum.
(d) At home when she was a young child.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does a doctor want to measure the heads of criminals?
2. What happens to Mrs. Humphreys’s housekeeper?
3. What does Jordan believe about Verringer’s relationship with Grace?
4. Where does the governor’s oldest daughter live?
5. What does Jordan think Dora might do on purpose?
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