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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maud decide to do about her situation?
(a) to ask the local constable for help
(b) to hire someone to murder Richard
(c) to return to Mrs. Sucksby's home on Lant Street
(d) to hitch a ride back to Briar

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

3. How does Richard get rid of Maud?
(a) he murders her
(b) he makes it look as though she has scarlet fever
(c) he pays her to leave
(d) he writes a false letter saying she is needed by her mother

4. What does Mr. Lilly say in a letter to Richard?
(a) that Richard is welcome to Maud and that she is a whore
(b) that Sue is really Mr. Lilly's niece
(c) that he is hiring a lawyer to get Maud back
(d) that Maud plans to leave Richard

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

6. 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

7. To whom does Mr. Hawtrey compare Maud?
(a) Clarissa
(b) Helen of Troy
(c) Queen Elizabeth I
(d) Galatea, a nymph sculpted in marble

8. What card falls out when Sue is telling Maud her fortune?
(a) two of hearts
(b) queen of hearts
(c) ace of spades
(d) jack of clubs

9. Maud wonders if she will be a _____________ wandering the halls of Briar.
(a) happily married woman
(b) lonely woman
(c) ghost
(d) lesbian

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

11. What does Sue think Maud's uncle is doing?
(a) writing a novel about the queen
(b) making a map of the known world
(c) compiling a dictionary
(d) keeping account books for the Duke

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

13. What foreshadowing happens when Maud gives Sue one of her dresses?
(a) Sue acts insane and slaps the maid for insolence
(b) Maud kisses Sue passionately
(c) a maid mistakes Sue for Maud
(d) Sue thinks of Maud's insane mother

14. What does Mrs. Sucksby do right after Marianne Lilly gives birth?
(a) writes Marianne Lilly's father about the birth
(b) smothers the baby
(c) switches Marianne Lilly's baby with that of another baby
(d) murders Marianne Lilly

15. What does Maud steal from her uncle's bedroom while he is asleep?
(a) one of his pornographic books
(b) his razor and watch chain
(c) another picture of her mother
(d) the money laying on his dresser

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Maud run to when she escapes Mrs. Sucksby's house?

2. How does Richard get Maud into the gardens?

3. What does Maud give Charles for Sue when Charles comes to the door of Mrs. Sucksby's house?

4. Maud's gloves have _____________________.

5. How does Richard introduce Sue and Maud to the doctors?

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