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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sue do with a single glove of Maud's that Sue finds?
(a) hides it under the bed
(b) burns it in the fireplace
(c) gives it to Maud and admonishes her for losing the match to it
(d) keeps it for a momento

3. How is Richard going to gain access to Maud's home?
(a) through a secret entrance in the basement
(b) obtain a job mounting Maud's uncle's artwork
(c) by pretending to be a workman
(d) by offering Mr. Lilly free pornography

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

5. From what did Maud's mother really die?
(a) suicide
(b) a broken heart
(c) being murdered by her husband
(d) giving birth to Maud

6. Of what are Maud's gloves symbolic?
(a) virginity
(b) purity
(c) disease
(d) isolation

7. At what age does Maud come to live at Briar?
(a) 9
(b) 15
(c) 11
(d) 3

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

9. Why do the servants cut short their dinner?
(a) an airraid occurs
(b) they learn it is poisoned
(c) Mr. Lilly cannot afford to feed them any longer
(d) they must place sandbags to keep water out of the basement

10. Maud's skirt is ________________.
(a) just a tad longer than a mini-skirt
(b) So short it shows her ankles
(c) made of the same material as the drapery
(d) yellow velvet

11. What weather element plays an important symbolic role in this section?
(a) snow
(b) sunshine
(c) fog
(d) rain

12. Part 1 is from __________ point of view.
(a) Sue's
(b) Maude's
(c) Sue's spinster aunt
(d) John Vroom's

13. What do Mr. Hawtrey and Mr. Huss have in common with Mr. Lilly?
(a) they all deal with pornography
(b) they live in the same neighborhood
(c) they fought together in the war
(d) they are brothers

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

15. Why does Richard Rivers come to Maud's room late at night?
(a) to scheme with her about getting her mother's money
(b) to tell her that there is a tornado coming
(c) to seduce her
(d) to tell her that he is her brother

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sue is 5 or 6, she watches the movie _____________.

2. Sue's mother was ________________.

3. What is the reason Maud believes her uncles will not allow her to marry Richard?

4. How long will Richard have to wait to put his plan to elope with Maud in place?

5. What is Maud's main reservation about this plan?

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