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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Hawtrey do when Maud appears in his store?
(a) he hires a coach to take her to a place where she can eat and sleep
(b) he introduces Maud to his wife and daughters
(c) he has the police arrest her for trespassing
(d) he contacts Mr. Lilly

2. Why was Mrs. Sucksby Marianne Lilly's midwife?
(a) because Mrs. Sucksby is the best midwife in London
(b) because she is Marianne Lilly's aunt
(c) because Marianne Lilly paid her a huge sum
(d) because Marianne Lilly is unmarried

3. During the day before their escape, Maud and Sue visit ______________.
(a) Mr. Lilly to gloat secretly
(b) the stables to say goodbye to Maud's filly
(c) the root cellar to steal some food for the trip
(d) Maud's mother's grave

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

5. How does Richard introduce Sue and Maud to the doctors?
(a) he tells them Maud is his sister and Sue is the maid
(b) he says Sue is his wife and Maud is the maid
(c) he tells them that Maud is his wife and Sue his mistress
(d) he tells them that both women are his sisters

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

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

8. How does Richard realize that Maud is falling in love with Sue?
(a) he hears Maud confess her love to Sue
(b) he slaps Maud and makes her tell him
(c) he hears the two of them making love one night
(d) he observes Maud watching Sue sleep while on an outing

9. How does Mrs. Sucksby explain Sue's continued absence?
(a) she says that Sue betrayed them and ran away with the money
(b) she says Sue comitted suicide
(c) she says that Sue married Mr. Lilly when he rescued her
(d) she says Sue had to go care for her cousin

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

11. 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) money
(d) a black widow spider

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

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

14. What does the two of hearts signify in fortune telling?
(a) a happy fortune
(b) imminent death
(c) a future trip
(d) a love relationship

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Mr. Hawtrey compare Maud?

2. What does Maud do with a razor?

3. When does Maud clearly remember the trip?

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

5. What convinces Maud to continue with their plan about the inheritance and Sue?

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