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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Maud pass the day in a stupor?
(a) she is trying a new pill for depression
(b) she drinks vodka tonics all the time
(c) she has been drugged
(d) she does not sleep well because the bed is hard

2. What is wrong with Nurse Bacon?
(a) her legs are twisted from polio
(b) she has had an ear cut off
(c) she has swollen and painful hands
(d) she has a broken hip

3. Maud thinks in the boat: "We glide, softly," she says, "in silence, into our ________.
(a) "own fulfilled dreams."
(b) "dark and separate hells."
(c) "new life of love."
(d) "trip to Paradise."

4. Who cuts open Maud's bag to examine the contents?
(a) John Vroom
(b) Mr. Hawrly
(c) Richard
(d) Mrs. Sucksby

5. What happens to Maud's diamond brooch?
(a) Richard gives it to his sister
(b) Maud pawns it for money
(c) she throws it away because it was fake
(d) Mrs. Sucksby takes it

6. What does Sue find on the floor of the soft room?
(a) a knife to kill herself with
(b) one of Maud's gloves
(c) a black widow spider
(d) money

7. How does Maud get Sue to make love to Maud?
(a) offers her 20 pounds to do so
(b) tells Sue that Richard wants to watch them doing so
(c) threatens to fire Sue
(d) initiates a conversation designed to motivate Sue to do so

8. What do Sue and Maud pack for the trip?
(a) Maud's clothing and jewerly
(b) nothing; they must escape unburdened
(c) a picnic basket
(d) bedding

9. What is the place that the coach takes Maud?
(a) a luxurious motel
(b) the train station to send her to her uncle
(c) Buckingham Palace
(d) a home for destitute gentlewomen

10. When does Maud clearly remember the trip?
(a) when they arrive at the country church
(b) when they board the boat
(c) when Sue is readying her for her marriage bed
(d) when Sue slaps her to stop her hysteria

11. While Maud grows thinner and paler, Sue ___________________.
(a) looks healthier each day
(b) worries about Maud dying
(c) eats Maud's meals
(d) gives Maud small doses of arsenic

12. Who visits Sue in the asylum?
(a) Mr. Hawtrey
(b) Mr. Lilly
(c) Mrs. Sucksby
(d) Charles, the knife boy from Briar

13. What does Richard say when Maud accuses him of planning to murder her?
(a) that she has guessed correctly
(b) that he is in love with her
(c) that Mrs. Sucksby would not like it
(d) that she is hallucinogenic

14. What is the implication of Mrs. Sucksby saying, "my own dear girl."
(a) that Mrs. Sucksby is trying to calm Maud and be a substitute mother
(b) that Maud is Mrs. Sucksby's biological daughter
(c) that Mrs. Sucksby is blind and thinks Maud is Sue
(d) that Mrs. Sucksby plans to adopt Maud

15. How does Sue treat Maud?
(a) roughly
(b) with kindness and gentleness
(c) with contempt
(d) indifferently

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maud steal from her uncle's bedroom while he is asleep?

2. Maud's gloves have _____________________.

3. How does Mrs. Sucksby react when Maud grabs a baby and threatens to kill it?

4. After the cold water plunge, what happens to Sue's memory?

5. What does Maud find so humorous when she observes Richard and Sue together?

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