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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What regulates Maud's day at Briar?
(a) the calling of the hours by the butler
(b) meal times
(c) her appointment book
(d) the chiming of the clock

2. How does Richard describe Sue?
(a) a sort of thief who is not too clever
(b) a servant in a brothel
(c) a beautiful, intelligent girl
(d) as his slow-minded sister

3. What is Richard's real plan to do with Sue after the hoax is complete?
(a) to turn her over to the police for fraud
(b) to have her as a mistress
(c) to murder her
(d) to convince authorities that she is Maud and have her commited

4. To what does Sue compare Maud's cheek?
(a) a pearl
(b) a streetmap of veins
(c) an alabaster angel
(d) a ruddy duck

5. The staff of Briar benefits from ________________.
(a) items in the household
(b) the modern conveniences of the kitchen
(c) the vacation plans of Mr. Lilly
(d) Maud's generosity

6. How does Maud's mother die?
(a) chokes on a pin she swallowed
(b) Jumping a log on her horse
(c) Hanging herself in the barn
(d) of typoid

7. What proves that the marriage has been consummated?
(a) Maud's description of the night
(b) blood on the sheets
(c) Richard smoking a cigar
(d) Sue's eye witness testimony

8. What does Richard say about Maud's feelings for him?
(a) that Maud is afraid of her feelings for him
(b) that her feelings are the key to the elopement
(c) that they are false
(d) that Maud's feelings are silly

9. Sue compares the warm kitchen of her home at Mrs. Sucksby's to that of ______________.
(a) heaven
(b) Oliver Twist's home
(c) hell
(d) her childhood home

10. What bewilders Maud when she arrives at Briar?
(a) the stillness of the house
(b) the paintings in the foyer
(c) the dirt and grime
(d) how to use the bath

11. Who performs the marriage ceremony?
(a) Sue
(b) no one; Richard and Maud just exchange vows themselves
(c) an unkempt vicar in a village church
(d) the justice of the peace

12. What symbolic event happens just as Richard and Maud return to the home after painting out of doors?
(a) the church bells ring
(b) two turtle doves fly overhead
(c) fog moves in from the bog
(d) a storm

13. Sue compares Maud to __________.
(a) a pearl
(b) a worm
(c) Sue's mother
(d) fake diamonds

14. Gentleman trains Sue in the skills of _______________ and sends her off to the Lillys' home.
(a) massage therapist
(b) horseback riding
(c) pilfering silver
(d) being a maid

15. What is the Gentleman's alleged real name?
(a) Matthew Grez
(b) John Jacobs
(c) Richard Rivers
(d) Stein Yesser

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age does Maud come to live at Briar?

2. Maud continues to ask Sue to _________________.

3. What does Maud dream of after she and Richard finish their plan that night?

4. What is the name of the flowers Mrs. Cream gives to Maud?

5. What does Maud's uncle teach her?

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