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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Catherine talk to her mother about in July?
(a) The weather.
(b) Traveling to other parts of the world.
(c) The nature of marriage.
(d) Her father's strict rules.

2. Whose grandmother dies in June?
(a) Meg's.
(b) Lady Aelis'.
(c) Catherine's.
(d) Perkin's.

3. What happens to Robert's wife in June?
(a) She becomes pregnant.
(b) She falls into a coma.
(c) She dies in childbirth.
(d) She breaks her leg.

4. Who visits at the beginning of May that dismays Catherine?
(a) Shaggy Beard's agents.
(b) Shaggy Beard.
(c) Geoffrey.
(d) Robert.

5. How does Catherine react to Aelis' impending marriage in September?
(a) She is dumbfounded.
(b) She is indifferent to the idea.
(c) She is horrified.
(d) She is excited.

6. Who is nearby during the labor?
(a) A priest.
(b) A fortune teller.
(c) Catherine's aunt.
(d) A midwife.

7. Why does Catherine's father throw this person down the stairs in September?
(a) He has come to read Catherine's mother's last rites.
(b) He bad mouths Catherine's father.
(c) He yells at Catherine's mother when she is weak.
(d) He does not move fast enough.

8. What does Catherine think of her new aunt?
(a) She is old but fun.
(b) She is selfish and egotistical.
(c) She smells strange and looks stranger.
(d) She is sweet and kind.

9. What does Catherine buy first at the fair in August?
(a) A pin for herself.
(b) Souvenirs.
(c) Presents.
(d) Candy.

10. Who is Odd William?
(a) Catherine's uncle.
(b) A self-styled scholar.
(c) An insane beggar.
(d) The town idiot.

11. What does Catherine discuss with Perkin in March?
(a) Whether or not she should run away.
(b) Perkin's writing and reading.
(c) Catherine's most recent crush.
(d) Perkin's future goals.

12. Where does Catherine think of running away to in September?
(a) Spain.
(b) Rome.
(c) London or Ireland.
(d) Portugal.

13. Why does Robert bribe an abbess in August?
(a) To look after the bear.
(b) To keep Catherine's doubts a secret.
(c) To look after Catherine's dowry.
(d) To look after Catherine.

14. What does Catherine start a book of in July?
(a) A book of recipes.
(b) A book of quotations.
(c) A book of observations.
(d) A book of remedies.

15. What does Shaggy Beard want in March?
(a) A feast in his honor.
(b) To marry Catherine.
(c) A kiss from Catherine.
(d) An estate built near Catherine's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is George married to?

2. How is Catherine's mother feeling in July?

3. What does Catherine realize about her engagement to Shaggy Beard in July?

4. How long is Catherine's mother's labor?

5. Who does Meg become engaged to in March?

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