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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 does the penitentiary consider to be the only remedy for the criminals there?
(a) Keeping them isolated.
(b) Thrashing and religion.
(c) Bad food and a lot of work.
(d) Good nutrition and the Bible.

2. How many month’s rent does Dr. Jordan advance Mrs. Humphreys?
(a) Two.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

3. What is the book called of which a page is shown in Chapter 2?
(a) The Punishment Book.
(b) The transcript of Grace’s trial.
(c) The Schedule of Duty.
(d) The Book of the Hours.

4. What does Lydia do when Jordan comes to the governor’s home?
(a) Asks him if he is interested in Grace as more than just a patient.
(b) Introduces him as a distant cousin to friends.
(c) Nothing, she is not there.
(d) Flirts with him.

5. What does Jordan see as the main difference between European and North American servants?
(a) The servants in Canada are better trained.
(b) The servants in Europe know their place.
(c) The servants in Europe are better dressed.
(d) The servants in Europe demand more money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relative in Ireland does Grace try to protect from being related to her?

2. What does Dr. Jordan bring Grace?

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

4. Where does Grace say it was that she stopped sharing her thoughts?

5. What does Jordan do in his first conversation with Grace in an attempt to get her to open up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three letters that are shown at the beginning of Chapter 4?

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

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

4. How are hysterics defined at the beginning of Chapter 6?

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 is bothering Jordan in Chapter 4?

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

9. What does Grace tell Dr. Jordan about working at Mrs. Parkinson’s with Mary?

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

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