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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 8, where does Lady Sinnett want to go with Hazel?

2. Who came to teach the human dissection instead of Dr. Beecham?

3. What did Hazel suggest to Iona and Charles after Bernard left?

4. Who did Hazel bump into after her talk with Dr. Beecham III?

5. What was Isabella doing after the show?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the premise of the play that Hazel and her mother went to see at Le Grand Leon?

2. Why did Lady Sinnett and Percy leave Edinburgh in Chapter 10?

3. In Chapter 9, what does Jack spend a whole month's paycheck on? Who was it for and why did he buy it?

4. In Chapter 1, What did Hazel find on her walk and what did she do with it?

5. What “performance” did Hazel want to see? How did she end up getting in?

6. What are the circumstances, mentioned in the excerpt before Chapter 5, surrounding Dr. Beecham's later years and subsequent death?

7. Why did Hazel want to stay behind when her mother and Percy left for Bath? How did she manage to stay behind?

8. Why did Hazel have to disguise herself in order to attend Anatomy class? How did she manage to do it?

9. What was Hazel's plan to get back into anatomy classes? What was the result?

10. In Chapter 8, Where did Hazel go with her mother? What did they do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lady Sinnett, Hazel's mother shows her love for Hazel and for Percy in very different ways. What are the ways that the reader can tell that Lady Sinnet loves and cares about Hazel and her future well-being? Is Lady Sinnett's love for Percy healthy? Do you think it would have been supportive to Hazel if Lady Sinnet had paid more attention to her? Do you think Hazel would still have been able to treat all those people, find out about Dr. Beecham's secret and save Jack?

Essay Topic 2

Do you think Hazel is going to join Jack in New York? What do you think her reasons would be for going? What her reasons be for staying in Scotland?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring how Hazel's view of people from a lower social class was different than any of the other noble-born people in the book. How does the author show this difference?

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