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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Maud's uncle tells her that she has been brought to him, not to make a lady of her, but to be a ___________ to him.
(a) servant
(b) blessing
(c) secretary
(d) advisor

2. What happens at the insane asylum?
(a) Maud and Richard wrestle in anger
(b) Sue learns she has been tricked and is to be left there
(c) Maud kills herself when she learns where she is
(d) Maud passionately declares her love for Sue

3. What does Maud's uncle teach her?
(a) how to set a proper table
(b) the financial aspect of the manor
(c) how to read and write Italian
(d) All about bindings, type fonts, paper, and ink

4. As a child, Maud believed she would become a _____________.
(a) wealthy woman
(b) nun
(c) nurse in an insane asylum
(d) Duchess

5. What is Sue's main job at Briar?
(a) To sit awake all night and be ready to help Maud.
(b) To cook and serve meals.
(c) To exercise Maud's horse.
(d) To read to Maud several hours each day.

6. What does Sue do that creates a wall between her and Maud?
(a) she steals a dress
(b) she makes love to Maud supposedly to show Maud what to expect when married
(c) she tells Maud the plan to swindle Maud for her money
(d) she kisses Richard in front of Maud

7. What is Maud's main reservation about this plan?
(a) the idea of committing Sue to an insane asylum for life
(b) lying to her uncle
(c) marrying Richard
(d) leaving home

8. What does Sue do to encourage Maud to look favorably upon Richard?
(a) describes Richard's immense wealth
(b) hints that Sue will be forced to marry someone terrible otherwise
(c) tells Maud how kind Richard is
(d) uses a stacked deck of cards to tell Maud's fortune

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

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

11. What color of gloves is worn by the gentleman who chooses to bring Maud to Briar?
(a) he does not wear gloves
(b) red
(c) black
(d) white

12. What does Sue teach Maud?
(a) dance steps and how to play cards
(b) the best way to pick a lock
(c) how to break into a safe
(d) how to groom a horse

13. What is the name of Maud's maid?
(a) Heddy
(b) Ursula
(c) Agnes
(d) Jill

14. What does Sue realize during the wait for the elopement?
(a) that Sue is in love with Maud
(b) that Sue will be jealous of Richard marrying Maud
(c) that Sue feels protective of Maud
(d) that Sue has enjoyed being a maid

15. Maud cuts the grass around _____________.
(a) the rose bed
(b) her mother's grave
(c) the gate posts
(d) the cherry tree

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the housekeeper at Briar?

2. Why does Maud give Sue one of her dresses?

3. What does Mr. Lilly require Maud to wear?

4. What symbolic event happens just as Richard and Maud return to the home after painting out of doors?

5. When Sue awakens the first morning at Briar, she notices that ___________.

(see the answer keys)

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