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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Richard contrive to be able to see and talk to Maud every day?
(a) he offers to give her painting lessons
(b) by climbing up the trellis to her room
(c) he dresses as a maid who delivers her meals to her
(d) by asking her uncle's permission

2. How does Richard get Maud into the gardens?
(a) by helping her climb down the trellis
(b) by asking permission of Mr. Lilly
(c) by saying it's time for Maud to paint nature
(d) by promising her a kiss

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

4. After the cold water plunge, what happens to Sue's memory?
(a) she has hypothermia
(b) she begins to believe she is Maud
(c) she asks for it again as a means to cool off
(d) she kills herself

5. About what does Maud daydream?
(a) rescuing her mother from the asylum
(b) a life in London
(c) traveling to Italy with Richard
(d) having her own mansion

6. What does Sue call Maud, which surprises Maud?
(a) a good girl
(b) your ladyship
(c) your majesty
(d) a mean person

7. What does Maud do with a razor?
(a) murders Sue
(b) destroys a number of her uncle's pornographic books
(c) slits her wrists because she has changed her mind about the plan
(d) slits her uncle's throat

8. Who is the daughter of Marianne Lilly?
(a) Sue
(b) Marianne Lilly daughter died at a young age
(c) Maud
(d) Marianne Lilly has no daughter

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

10. Where do Charles and Sue go after Sue escapes from the asylum?
(a) the United States
(b) Paris
(c) London
(d) Briar

11. Where does Maud run to when she escapes Mrs. Sucksby's house?
(a) to the police
(b) to find Mr. Hawtrey on Holywell Street
(c) to the insane asylum to get Sue
(d) back to her uncle's house

12. Who takes responsibility for the murder?
(a) Mrs. Sucksby
(b) Charles, the knife boy
(c) Maud
(d) Sue

13. Who does Maud decide to turn to for help?
(a) the Queen
(b) Mr. Lilly
(c) Charles the knife boy
(d) Mr. Hawtrey

14. What does Charles bring Sue the next week?
(a) five thousand pounds of her inheritance
(b) two letters from Maud
(c) a pardon from the Queen
(d) a key blank and file

15. What does Maud give Charles for Sue when Charles comes to the door of Mrs. Sucksby's house?
(a) a new dress
(b) money
(c) a letter
(d) the folded two of hearts card

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Mrs. Sucksby Marianne Lilly's midwife?

2. What does Maud want to do when Sue is in the bed next to her?

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

4. What does Maud refuse to do for Sue?

5. What does Richard say in his letter to Maud from London?

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