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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. How old is Mr. Otis's daughter?

2. What is Mrs. Umey's profession?

3. What is Mr. Otis annoyed about the morning after his first encounter with the ghost?

4. What is knocked over to cause the large crash in the hall?

5. What does the ghost plan to do in front of Washington on Friday?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the ghost plan to fulfill his duties after his Friday night plans fail?

2. Why does nobody worry about Virginia when she does not come to tea?

3. What does Mr. Otis do when the ghost's chains wake him up?

4. What does the oldest Otis son say when he is told the bloodstain cannot be cleaned?

5. Where does the bloodstain in the library come from?

6. What happened when the Dowager Duchess and her maids see the ghost?

7. Why does Lord Canterville refuse to take the jewels that the ghost gave Virginia?

8. How does the ghost pan to scare Virginia in his Friday plan?

9. What are the names of the Otis children? What does this signify?

10. What happens as the Otises drive up to their new house at the beginning of the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Maturity is a theme presented in a number of places in this plot, and is manifested in a number of different ways. Choose a few of these instances. Compare and contrast them. How are they different in their manifestations of this sensitive theme?

Essay Topic 2

Oscar Wilde presents the idea that there are two sides to every man. Choose three of the characters from the book and write about their dual natures and how this duality affects the characters around them.

Essay Topic 3

Much of this plot follows the relationship between Cecil and Virginia. How does this relationship change over the course of the plot? What causes these changes?

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