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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Maud's gloves have _____________________.
(a) been stolen
(b) been dyed green
(c) gotten several holes in them
(d) become stained

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

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

5. What happens to Richard?
(a) Maud divorces him
(b) he is arrested for murdering Sue
(c) he is stabbed to death
(d) he is given money from Maud's inheritance

6. How does Sue use her playing cards?
(a) to tell Maud's fortune
(b) to fan herself since it's so warm in the house
(c) to play poker for money with the other servants
(d) to play solitaire at night

7. Why do Maud and Mrs. Sucksby move towards Richard holding the knife?
(a) because he threatens to tell Sue the truth
(b) to protect him from Sue
(c) to help him escape
(d) to catch him before he flees

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

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

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

11. Who devised the entire scheme about the inheritance?
(a) Mrs. Sucksby
(b) Sue's aunt
(c) John Vroom
(d) the Gentleman

12. Who finally greets Maud and Richard and dropping Sue off at the asylum?
(a) no one; they go to Richards empty home
(b) Maud's uncle
(c) a white-haired woman in a black taffeta dress
(d) the constable

13. 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."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sue pawn to get money to rent a place across the street from Mrs. Sucksby's house?

2. What are Sue's plans for Maud when Sue finds her?

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

4. How does Richard get Maud into the gardens?

5. Where do Charles and Sue go after Sue escapes from the asylum?

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