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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Dr. Jordan going to Toronto?
(a) To check on the family business.
(b) To meet with Grace’s lawyer and visit the Kinnear house.
(c) To post a letter to his mother.
(d) To bring back a hypnotist.

2. 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) The spiritual aspects.
(d) What he calls the intellectual.

3. Why is Mrs. Humphreys crying when Dr. Jordan returns from Grace’s hypnotism?
(a) The bank is foreclosing on her house.
(b) Her husband is returning.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) Her husband has been killed.

4. How does Dupont demonstrate the fact that Grace is in a trance?
(a) He has Grace push on the wall until her hands begin to actually sink into the wall.
(b) He pricks her with a pin.
(c) He has Grace stretch her arm out and tells her it is steel, then leans on it.
(d) He very quickly touches her finger with a candle flame.

5. What does Grace say is the reason Mr. Verringer is so proper?
(a) He is noble born.
(b) He is a clergyman.
(c) He is in the Canadian parliament.
(d) He is English.

6. Why is Grace depressed on her birthday in Chapter 8?
(a) She wishes to visit her family but they are too far away.
(b) She feels completely alone.
(c) She feels that Nancy hates her.
(d) She would like to be married.

7. What does Samantha make that Dr. Jordan loves?
(a) Blueberry muffins.
(b) Strawberry preserves.
(c) Peach pies.
(d) Roast pheasant.

8. What does Grace do with the clothes she had been wearing when the murders take place?
(a) Buries them.
(b) Leaves them in Nancy’s room.
(c) Burns them.
(d) Washes them.

9. What does McDermott say should be done to Kinnear and Nancy when McDermott is drunk?
(a) They should have their gold stolen.
(b) They should be knocked over the head and thrown in the cellar.
(c) Someone should poison their food.
(d) The house should be burned down around them.

10. When does Nancy tell McDermott he has to leave?
(a) At the end of the week.
(b) In five days, at the end of his pay period.
(c) Tomorrow.
(d) At the end of the month.

11. Why does one of Grace’s jailers say he hopes the hanging scaffold is high?
(a) So he can get a good look at her ankles.
(b) No jailer says that to Grace.
(c) Because she’s going to hell and will have farther to fall.
(d) So she is sure to die when she drops.

12. What does Grace give as the reason she cannot have sex with McDermott in Kinnear’s bed?
(a) It is too soft.
(b) Not with Kinnear dead in the cellar.
(c) She has slept in the bed with Nancy.
(d) It has blood on it.

13. Who helps Grace get away from the implement dealer?
(a) Thomas Kinnear.
(b) Jeremiah.
(c) Jamie Walsh.
(d) James McDermott.

14. What is Jeremiah/Dr. Dupont doing at the end of the book?
(a) He is a showman in a circus.
(b) He is back to being a peddler.
(c) He is teaching at a university in America.
(d) Working in a hospital, hypnotizing people to help with pain control.

15. What does McDermott tell Grace when he is standing in her room after the murders?
(a) She must keep her part of the bargain.
(b) Nancy is not dead yet.
(c) He is going to kill her also.
(d) They must leave immediately.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Jordan think the reason is that prisons are so dreary?

2. What song is Grace singing the first time Dr. Jordan hears her sing?

3. What does Jeremiah say to Grace a few days after her birthday?

4. What does Grace say to McDermott when he tells her they will soon be married?

5. In what kind of clothes was Mary Whitney buried?

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