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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. What nationality was Grace’s father?
(a) English.
(b) Irish.
(c) Scottish.
(d) Canadian.
2. How does Mary Whitney’s father lose his farm?
(a) Flood.
(b) Burned to punish him for being a radical.
(c) Drought.
(d) Taken by the bank in foreclosure.
3. What does Dr. Jordan say is one of Reverend Verringer’s chief faults?
(a) He has little education.
(b) He knows nothing about the human brain.
(c) He has a lack of wit.
(d) He demands too much from his employees.
4. What does Jordan place in front of Grace at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) A hat.
(b) An orange.
(c) A book.
(d) A potato.
5. What does McDermott do first to Nancy according to the poem?
(a) Break her neck.
(b) Put a knife through her heart.
(c) Throw her in the cellar.
(d) Strike her on the head with an axe.
Short Answer Questions
1. From what book in the Bible does Dr. Jordan quote to Grace?
2. Why are the inmates given little meat to eat?
3. Why does Grace’s family leave for Canada?
4. Why does Grace think it is bad when a doctor is around?
5. Who is Mrs. Parkinson’s housekeeper to whom Grace is introduced?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who comes to Grace’s cell, why and how does he reassure her?
2. What does the visitor to Grace’s cell give her and what does Grace do about it?
3. Describe the scene where Grace dreams the peddler has something to give her?
4. What does Grace tell Dr. Jordan about working at Mrs. Parkinson’s with Mary?
5. What does Grace say about her behavior where she is living?
6. 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?
7. What is Jordan invited to join at the governor’s house and what does Lydia do before it starts?
8. What are the circumstances of Mrs. Humphreys’s life that are so difficult?
9. What happens at the Parkinsons that changes both Mary and Grace’s circumstances?
10. What does Grace say she started doing in the asylum and what was the result of these actions?
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