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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sue teach Maud about some normal activities of life?
(a) So Maud will know how to live on her own
(b) So Maud will entertain Sue
(c) Because Maud has commanded Sue to teach her
(d) So Richard will find Maud appealing

2. Why is Charles, the knife boy, beaten?
(a) for using a paring knife to carve a wooden dog
(b) for forgetting to polish the silver
(c) for weeping over the departure of Richard
(d) for sharpening the wrong side of a knife

3. What advice does Sue give to Maud about Maud's uncertainty?
(a) that Maud is silly because Richard is wonderful
(b) to follow her heart
(c) to not worry that married life is wonderful
(d) that Maud needs to buck up and accept the marriage

4. Of what are Maud's gloves symbolic?
(a) isolation
(b) purity
(c) virginity
(d) disease

5. At what age does Maud come to live at Briar?
(a) 11
(b) 15
(c) 9
(d) 3

Short Answer Questions

1. What bewilders Maud when she arrives at Briar?

2. What weather element plays an important symbolic role in this section?

3. What does Maud do when the two of hearts falls on the floor?

4. What does Maud confess to Sue as Sue readies Maud for the marriage bed?

5. Where does Richard want to paint nature?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maud ask of Sue and how does Sue respond?

2. What are Sue's impressions of Maud?

3. What does the reader learn about the people Gentleman plans to swindle?

4. What are the details of the plan Richard concocts to free Maud and get her inheritance?

5. Describe how Maud's uncle claimed her at the insane asylum.

6. What does Maud do after dinner?

7. Why does Sue grow up in Mrs. Sucksby's home?

8. Why does Maud relate the story of her coming to Briar?

9. How does Richard prepare for committing Maud to the insane asylum?

10. What happens when Richard, Sue and Maud arrive at the insane asylum?

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