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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Eleanor and Theo see while walking on the property after dark?

2. What does Eleanor come to believe she can hear?

3. Who believes ghosts only want to be loved?

4. What does Eleanor come to believe has fallen?

5. What do Mrs. Montague and Arthur report hearing the night before?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Theo spend the following night?

2. What is Mrs. Montague's opinion of Dr. Montague's research thus far?

3. Whom does Eleanor eavesdrop on to see if they are speaking about her?

4. Who teases Eleanor about her relationship with Luke?

5. What does Eleanor hear as she sits in the parlor?

6. In what room does Mrs. Montague insist on sleeping?

7. What do Dr. Montague and his assistants hear during the night?

8. What does Luke find written in the hallway?

9. What does Eleanor confess to Theo as they walk the grounds?

10. When does Mrs. Montague arrive at the house? Why does she come?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is Eleanor the only one who can hear the small child singing her final night in the house? Why does Eleanor believes she can hear everything that is happening in the house? What impact does this imply about Eleanor? Is this what causes Eleanor to act strange later in the night?

Essay Topic 2

Who are the Sandersons? How did they come to own Hill House? Why do they not live in the house? Who has lived in the house over the past several years? What happened to those people?

Essay Topic 3

Who died in Hill House? How? Who inherited the house upon the owner's death? What was the nature of the dispute between these owners? Who inherits the house upon the death of the second owner? What happens to this person? Why?

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