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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. How old is Mrs. Manresa?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Forty-five.
(c) Twenty-eight.
(d) Thirty-nine.

2. What does Mrs. Manresa wonder once the pageant starts?
(a) Whether the actors are wearing make up.
(b) Whether it will run till midnight.
(c) Whether it will rain.
(d) Whether Giles is looking at her.

3. Who is the first player to appear in the play?
(a) An elderly man.
(b) A young boy.
(c) A young girl.
(d) An elderly woman.

4. Who does Mr. Oliver say "must have their ghosts"?
(a) Criminals.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) Servants.

5. What is the name of Mr. Oliver's country home?
(a) Harewood House.
(b) Nostell Priory.
(c) Pointz Hall.
(d) Clandon Park.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the audience go to the barn?

2. What religious figure appears in the pageant?

3. How many people go with Mrs. Swithin for a tour of Pointz Hall?

4. What do the villagers do when "Queen Elizabeth" returns to the stage?

5. Why did someone supposedly drown themselves in the lily pond?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mrs. Manresa described?

2. What prompts Mrs. Swithin to wonder about a superstitious notion?

3. What causes Giles' bad mood when he arrives at Pointz Hall?

4. Who is Miss La Trobe? How does she carryout her role in the pageant?

5. What does Lucy Swithin like to read and imagine?

6. What does Pointz Hall host every year? Where will the event take place should there be fair or rainy weather?

7. What do the Haineses and Mr. Oliver discuss at the beginning of the novel?

8. As a skeptic and atheist, what does Mr. Oliver think about Mrs. Swithin?

9. Who accompanies Mrs. Swithin on a tour of Pointz Hall? What does she forget on the tour?

10. What does Isa think about while watching George and company?

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