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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children did Wysteria have with her late husband?
(a) 0.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

2. What does Wysteria tell Miranda when she arrives to meet her in Chapter 6?
(a) She has fallen.
(b) She has a headache.
(c) She has the flu.
(d) She can hardly breathe.

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

4. What is the narrative voice of the novel?
(a) Third person.
(b) First person.
(c) Fourth person.
(d) Second person.

5. One of the boys in Chapter 7 claims the curse is due to the great riches within the Manor, and that the house kills anyone who tries to do what?
(a) Sleep in the house.
(b) Keep it.
(c) Leave the house.
(d) Spend money.

6. What is Wysteria's last name in the novel?
(a) Mead.
(b) Smith.
(c) Barrows.
(d) Dean.

7. In Chapter 4,Miranda happens upon a skeleton key which can unlock all the doors on what floor of the Manor?
(a) The fourth floor.
(b) The first floor.
(c) The third floor.
(d) The second floor.

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

9. How does Miranda lose Red Dragon in Chapter 5?
(a) An eagle breaks the string.
(b) She loses her grasp of the string.
(c) Wysteria takes the string.
(d) It magically lifts away.

10. In the beginning of Chapter 7, Miranda remarks that Farley has not returned since he came to do what?
(a) Return the kite.
(b) Give her money.
(c) Ask for Dr. Mead.
(d) Talk to Wysteria.

11. What does Farley have strapped to his back when Miranda finds him in Chapter 6?
(a) Majestic Eagle.
(b) Blue Hawk.
(c) Red Dragon.
(d) Great Heron.

12. Miranda comes to Wysteria's estate in what month in Chapter 1?
(a) June.
(b) March.
(c) August.
(d) February.

13. Farley asks if Miranda can accompany him where to fly the kite in Chapter 6?
(a) To the beach.
(b) Into town.
(c) To the church.
(d) To the mountains.

14. The doctor's secretary tells Miranda that the doctor is where in Chapter 7?
(a) In Alaska on vacation.
(b) On a cruise in the South of France.
(c) On an island tending to another patient.
(d) In England on business.

15. What does Miranda claim Wysteria loves more than anything in Chapter 2?
(a) Her dogs.
(b) Miranda.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miranda see from the window in the morning, hoping it is Farley, in Chapter 6?

2. What does Wysteria make Miranda study in Chapter 2?

3. On what floor is Miranda's room in the Manor?

4. The boys who jeer at Miranda in Chapter 7 say that she is Wysteria's what?

5. Miranda says in Chapter 2 that she was adept at what from a young age?

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