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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does a doctor want to measure the heads of criminals?
(a) To see if he can tell what kind of crime they have committed.
(b) There is no doctor who measures heads.
(c) To see if their skulls are deformed.
(d) To see if they are less intelligent than law abiding citizens.

2. Who does Grace tell Dr. Jordan Mary Whitney is?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her grandmother, still in Ireland.
(d) The made up name she gave at the tavern.

3. What does Jordan believe about Verringer’s relationship with Grace?
(a) He does not think anything about Verringer and Grace.
(b) He believes that Verringer has never met Grace.
(c) He thinks Verringer is in love with Grace.
(d) He believes that Verringer has had an affair with Grace.

4. What is in the scrapbook the governor’s wife keeps?
(a) Samples of material for sewing.
(b) Recipes.
(c) Pictures of her children.
(d) Stories of criminals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the inmates given little meat to eat?

2. Why is Reverend Verringer paying Dr. Jordan to work with Grace?

3. What does Grace think of the stories written about her?

4. What does Grace say the peddler in her dream has of hers?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Grace say she started doing in the asylum and what was the result of these actions?

2. What are the circumstances of Mrs. Humphreys’s life that are so difficult?

3. Who narrates Chapter 1 and what does she say about her present circumstances as to where she is, how old she is and what year it is?

4. Where is Grace taken after her encounter with the doctor and what does she describe there?

5. What does the visitor to Grace’s cell give her and what does Grace do about it?

6. What does Grace say is in the governor’s wife’s scrapbook and what does Grace say about some of it?

7. What does Grace say about her behavior where she is living?

8. What is bothering Jordan in Chapter 4?

9. What is the sentencing for Grace and McDermott?

10. What first happens when a doctor comes into the parlor at the governor’s house and why does it happen?

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