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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the boys in Chapter 7 claims that the house caused Captain Barrows to do what?
(a) Run away to sea.
(b) Kill his wife.
(c) Kill his son.
(d) Throw himself off a cliff.

2. What does Miranda become an expert at while tending the kites in Chapter 4?
(a) Weaving kite-wire.
(b) Charting the oceans.
(c) Counting money.
(d) Charting the weather.

3. Miranda has overheard that Wysteria married her late husband for what reason in Chapter 2?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Money.
(c) Pregnancy.
(d) Love.

4. How many generations of grim ancestral portraits line the walls of the hall in Bourne Manor?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

5. What refers to discord of action, feeling, or effect; antagonism or opposition, as of interests or principles?
(a) Continuum.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Plot.
(d) Catalyst.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the end of Chapter 8, Dr. Mead says he would be delighted to return and visit what?

2. Where does Dr. Mead ask Miranda to take him in Chapter 8?

3. Miranda's room in Bourne Manor looks out across the harbor and to what mountains?

4. The doctor's secretary tells Miranda that the doctor is where in Chapter 7?

5. What is the name of the family who owned the great estate and into which Wysteria married in order to become wealthy?

(see the answer key)

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