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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of wood is Charles' coffin made from?
(a) Oak.
(b) Elm.
(c) Pine.
(d) Willow.

2. What name does Harriet want to call Phillip?
(a) Phipster.
(b) Pip.
(c) Philly.
(d) Phil.

3. Which part of Britain do Philip, Edward and Vivien drive to?
(a) Norfolk.
(b) Lancashire.
(c) Dorset.
(d) Suffolk.

4. What does Chatterton's friend say the arsenic removes?
(a) Bile.
(b) Pain.
(c) Contagion.
(d) Sourness.

5. What does Harriet say she would do if books became mere consumer items?
(a) Kill herself.
(b) Buy a bookshop.
(c) Burn all books.
(d) Find another job.

6. Which of the following does the author compare the pine needles to?
(a) Clumps of hair.
(b) Drawing pins.
(c) Fairy knives.
(d) Cat whiskers.

7. What does Vivian tell Edwards she is going to make for him?
(a) A cup of tea.
(b) A cake.
(c) A tree house.
(d) A paper airplane.

8. Where does Charles hold his dinner?
(a) A Turkish restaurant.
(b) A Chinese restaurant.
(c) A Lebanese restaurant.
(d) An Indian restaurant.

9. Why is Vivien not at the art gallery?
(a) She is on leave.
(b) She is at the doctors.
(c) She is at lunch.
(d) It is her day off.

10. Who does Chatterton see walk into the building just as it is about to be demolished?
(a) His girlfriend.
(b) A teacher.
(c) His mother.
(d) A child.

11. Which of the following poets did Chatterton not forge?
(a) William Blake.
(b) D.H Lawrence.
(c) Thomas Gray.
(d) William Cowper.

12. What is Charles reading at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Life of Chatterton.
(b) Forgeries and Fakes.
(c) Chatterton and the Meaning of Life.
(d) Poets We Love to Hate.

13. What does Vivian say when she first sees Flint and Harriet at the crematorium?
(a) You never loved him.
(b) Nice to see you.
(c) Leave at once.
(d) You both came.

14. What does Harriet tell the man she likes to do before she goes to bed?
(a) Read a book.
(b) Have a cry.
(c) Drink tea.
(d) Do the crossword.

15. Why does Meredith say she talks so little about her poetry?
(a) She talks so much about everything else.
(b) She cannot remember her poems.
(c) She likes to forget it.
(d) She prefers to just write it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Edward say the ghost will not be able to find them?

2. What make of car does Philip own?

3. What has Edward brought for his father?

4. What does Chatterton have to take a dessert spoon of?

5. What is lying on Edward's bed?

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