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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. What does Richard say in his letter to Maud from London?
(a) that he is impatient to get on with their plans
(b) that he has fallen in love and married another woman
(c) that he has changed his mind
(d) that he is being held in jail for theft

2. What happens to Maud's diamond brooch?
(a) Mrs. Sucksby takes it
(b) Maud pawns it for money
(c) she throws it away because it was fake
(d) Richard gives it to his sister

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the daughter of Marianne Lilly?

2. How does Richard get Maud into the gardens?

3. What does the two of hearts signify in fortune telling?

4. What does Charles bring Sue the next week?

5. Why does Maud pass the day in a stupor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Maud and Sue's first interaction.

2. How does Maud react to being at the house on Lant Street and how does Richard react to Maud's accusations?

3. What does Sue say to Maud the first night she is in the bed with Maud and what is Maud's reaction?

4. What does Maud give to Sue and what does that foreshadow?

5. How is Sue's experience at the insane asylum similar to that of Maud at her uncle's house?

6. Describe the murder of Richard.

7. What happens when Maud finally escapes?

8. When Richard returns from London, what must Maud commit herself to doing in the time left before her escape?

9. Describe Maud and Richard's wedding night.

10. Why does Richard suggest to Mr. Lilly that Richard teach Maud to paint?

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