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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. What does the family begin to believe after the strange thing in the library keeps reappearing?

2. Where is the house that Mr. Otis buys at the beginning of the book?

3. Where does the ghost sleep?

4. Why is Mr. Otis told not to buy the house at the beginning of the book?

5. Why does Mrs. Otis try to give the ghost a tincture?

Short Essay Questions

1. What pranks do the twins play on the ghost after his Friday night plan fails?

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

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

4. What does the ghost spend his night doing after his first encounter with the Otis family?

5. What does Mrs. Umney say when she wakes from her faint?

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

7. Why does the ghost decide to talk to the thing that interrupts his plan to scare Washington?

8. What do the Otises all respond to what Mrs. Umney says when she wakes up from her faint?

9. What does Washington do after admitting that the ghost is real?

10. How does the ghost feel after the events of his Friday night plans?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Despair is an emotion that affected a number of the characters in this book. Which characters are most affected by despair? How does this change the course of the plot branches they are involved in?

Essay Topic 2

Compassion and empathy is a theme present in a number of places in the plot. What are some of the best examples of this theme? How does the presence of this theme affect the outcome of this book?

Essay Topic 3

There are many secrets made, kept, and divulged in this book. What are some of these secrets? How does their placement in the plot affect the course of the plot and the characters involved in the secrets?

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