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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Bernard's answer to the paradox brought up at a dinner party?
(a) When all the wood has been replaced.
(b) When half of the wood has been replaced.
(c) When the first plank has been replaced.
(d) Never. As long as the ship is sailing it should be called the ship of Theseus, even when all its wood has been replaced.

2. In Chapter 25, who came knocking at Le Grand Leon Theater?
(a) Bankers.
(b) Jeanette.
(c) Isabella.
(d) Hazel.

3. Why did Hazel pay Jack extra for the object he brought her at home?
(a) As payment in advance for the next body.
(b) Because the body was so fresh.
(c) As a tip.
(d) As a gift.

4. Where did Jack and Hazel sleep after kissing?
(a) In the grave.
(b) At Almont House.
(c) At Hawthornden
(d) At Le Grand Leon.

5. What did Hazel notice once Jack shone the light on the dead man's body in their second dig?
(a) That he was missing a leg.
(b) That he was very tall.
(c) That he had the classic signs of Roman fever.
(d) That he had no eyeballs. Only empty sockets.

6. How did Jack know what the man on their second dig had died of?
(a) Jeanette had told him.
(b) He saw the gravediggers paint a red "R" on the coffin.
(c) He'd seen the man before he died.
(d) He asked the priest who presided over the burial.

7. Why did Jeanette not want to go to Mrs. Poffroy about her stomach pain?
(a) She would make Jeanette marry the father.
(b) If Mrs. Poffroy thought Jeanette was pregnant, she would kick Jeanette out of Almont House.
(c) She would make Jeanette go to the almshouse hospital.
(d) She would tell Lord Almont.

8. What did person who found Jack and Hazel sleeping in a grave think they were?
(a) The priest thought they were regular teenagers.
(b) The priest thought they were mourners who had accidentally fallen into a grave.
(c) Unholy Demons.
(d) The priest thought they were animals.

9. How many people were walking in the graveyard when Hazel and Jack jumped in the grave?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

10. Who was the figure talking to the doctor in the surgical theater?
(a) Lord Almont.
(b) Baron Walford.
(c) Dr. Straine.
(d) Bernard.

11. What does Jack point out to Hazel on their second ride?
(a) Another person.
(b) The Wortflower.
(c) Another horse.
(d) A stream.

12. Why does Jack not think ghosts would hang around a kirkyard?
(a) Because ghosts would not want to be reminded of death.
(b) Because ghosts must go back to where their unfinished business is.
(c) Because kirkyards are hallowed ground.
(d) Because ghosts would want to haunt someone living.

13. How was Hazel initially going to dress for the physician's exam?
(a) As a poor man.
(b) As a foreigner.
(c) As an older man with a beard.
(d) As George Hazelton.

14. In the beginning of Chapter 21, why did Jack apologize to Hazel?
(a) Because he had lied to Hazel.
(b) Because he had made fun of Hazel wanting to be a surgeon.
(c) Because he had not brought her a dead body to examine.
(d) Because he had been rude to her the last time he saw her.

15. What was strange about the object Jack brought Hazel?
(a) It was broken.
(b) It was made of glass.
(c) It was missing a heart.
(d) It was missing a nose.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 19, why did Iona disturb Hazel?

2. When Did Jack and Hazel agree to meet up to go on a dig?

3. What did Jack's mother do with Wortflower?

4. In Chapter 34, why did Beecham want the person in the wheelchair, in particular?

5. In Chapter 29, who came to see Hazel from her anatomy classes?

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