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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. What is written on the paper the narrator finds in "A School Story"?
(a) "If you don't come to me, I'll come to you."
(b) "I bite."
(c) "Teachers are the best thing ever."
(d) "Study hard."

2. What is in the painting that Mr. Williams orders?
(a) A lighthouse.
(b) A manor house.
(c) A boy playing jacks.
(d) His mother.

3. What is Mr. Anderson researching in Denmark?
(a) A church.
(b) A museum.
(c) A jail.
(d) A mountain.

4. Who did Mr. Garrett see looking for the Tractate Middoth earlier?
(a) A woman.
(b) A parson.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A child.

5. Who does Mr. Garrett marry at the end of "The Tractate Middoth"?
(a) Mary Simpson.
(b) He is already married.
(c) No one.
(d) Joyce River.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Parkins he saw someone in his hotel window?

2. Who does Mr. Wraxall learn was born in Chorazin?

3. What happened to the artist after he had finished the painting?

4. What mysterious being does Mr. Williams see in the painting?

5. What does the landlord tell Mr. Wraxall that men saw in the woods during the time of the count?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the caretaker of S. Bertrand Church.

2. What happens to John Eldred, at the end of "The Tractate Middoth"? What happens to Mr. Garrett?

3. How does Dennistoun come across Canon Alberic's Scrapbook?

4. What does Parkins think about the metal object he finds, in ""Oh Whistle, and I'll come to You, My Lad"? What does the object look like?

5. How does Mr. Anderson's room change, in "Number 13"?

6. Whom does Mr. Garrett meet at the lodging house that helps him solve the mystery of the Tractate Middoth? How does this person help?

7. What happens when Mr. Somerton finds Abbot Thomas' treasure? How does he fix what happens?

8. Why does Parkins get rid of the metal object he finds, in "Oh Whistle, and I'll come to You, My Lad"? How does he get rid of it?

9. Describe Parkins, in "Oh Whistle, and I'll come to You, My Lad."

10. What do the two men discuss, at the start of "A School Story "?

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