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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What led Daniel's mother to marry the man who is now her husband?
(a) Her fear that something was wrong with her voice.
(b) A fortuneteller's advice.
(c) Love.
(d) Infatuation.

2. What valuable family item does Mirah's father steal from Daniel?
(a) The family chest.
(b) A very expensive clock.
(c) A large ring.
(d) The family crest.

3. What is the purpose that Mirah's father claims to want money the first time that he asks her to aid him financially?
(a) To buy some decent clothes before reuniting with his son.
(b) To go some place where he can clean up and look presentable.
(c) To buy some good food.
(d) To buy her the necklace that he pawned years earlier.

4. Who tells Daniel that his mother wants to meet him?
(a) Sir Hugo.
(b) Mordecai.
(c) Grandcourt.
(d) Gwendolyn.

5. Where does Grandcourt want Gwendolyn's family to live?
(a) At the Grandcourt estate.
(b) Down the street.
(c) Far away.
(d) At another estate that he owns in London.

6. How does Eliot make it clear that Rex has gotten over Gwendolyn?
(a) He does not. Rex has really never stopped loving Gwedolyn.
(b) Eliot states that Rex is happily married to someone else.
(c) Eliot claims that Rex is now throwing himself into his studies.
(d) Rex simply tells Gwendolyn that he is no longer in love with her.

7. How does Gwendolyn explain her reaction to receiving the package from Lydia?
(a) She was suffering with influenza.
(b) She was upset by something that she had read in her romance novel.
(c) She was just stressed out.
(d) She was having a coughing fit.

8. What prevents Daniel from spending more time with Mordecai as they begin to grow closer?
(a) He is very busy with his banking business.
(b) All of the answer choices are correct.
(c) Mordecai is not well enough to see him every day.
(d) He has to run errands for Sir Hugo.

9. What specific advice does Grandcourt give Gwendolyn while at the Abbey?
(a) That she will "fill her place properly".
(b) That the ideas in her head "must be swept away, like dust under a rug".
(c) That she must "act more like a woman".
(d) That she is "too beautiful to exist on Earth".

10. What type of work does Hans do as an adult?
(a) He is an engineer.
(b) He is an artist.
(c) He is a singer.
(d) He is a baker.

11. What did Sir Hugo promise to do with Daniel when Daniel's mother gave Daniel to him?
(a) To raise him like an English gentleman.
(b) To raise him as a Jew.
(c) To never let his father know what happened to him.
(d) To never let him see his mother in a movie.

12. Whom does Hans confess to have fallen in love with to Daniel?
(a) Lydia.
(b) Gwendolyn.
(c) Mirah.
(d) Anna.

13. What does Daniel notice about Mordecai upon returning to visit him after pawning his ring?
(a) That he is a thief and a cheat.
(b) That he looks a lot like Mirah.
(c) That he is sick and dying.
(d) That he looks a lot like Sir Hugo.

14. How is Mordecai notified that his father has taken his little sister away?
(a) By a letter from his father.
(b) By a letter from his mother.
(c) In person by Mrs. Davilow.
(d) By a letter from his sister.

15. Why did Daniel's mother not want a child?
(a) She did not want to be tied down.
(b) She was impregnated by way of an affair.
(c) She would have been outcast.
(d) She felt that she was too young to become a mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mirah dress in her poorest dress as she prepares to meet her brother?

2. What type of arrangements does Grandcourt refuse to discuss with Gwendolyn?

3. What kind remark does Gwendolyn make to Daniel before she leaves the Abbey?

4. Where does Daniel's mother want to meet him?

5. Where does Herr Klesmer first hear Mirah sing?

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