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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. Why did Jack and Hazel take just one Horse to the graveyard?

2. What made Hazel freeze on her way to take her physician's exam?

3. What did doctor Beecham take from the person in the wheelchair in Chapter 34?

4. In Chapter 25, who came knocking at Le Grand Leon Theater?

5. How did Hazel and Jack get to the graveyard?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Hazel end up after following the man pushing the wheelchair? What did she see?

2. What was surprising about the body that Jack delivered to Hazel?

3. Why was Hazel unafraid of exposure to Roman fever?

4. In Chapter 23, what made Hazel and Jack jump into the grave of the man they had just unburied?

5. In Chapter 29, What was Dr. Beecham III's response to Hazel's letter?

6. In Chapter 24, Bernard saw Hazel at Princes street gardens. When Bernard saw her, what did he ask that caused Hazel to lie to him?

7. How did Hazel convince Jack to go on a dig?

8. In Chapter 28, who found Jack at Hawthornden? What happened to that person before he showed up at Hawthornden?

9. Hazel wanted the body of a person who had died from a specific cause. What was that cause and why did Hazel want to find that specific type of body?

10. In Chapter 18, how did Hazel manage to have a body delivered to her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hazel and Dr. Beecham have two opposing views about medical advancement and progress. Write an essay defining Hazel's view and make a case for the validity of her view.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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