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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 color is Florence's hair?
(a) Red.
(b) Gray.
(c) Blonde.
(d) Brown.

2. What do Florence and Ben find after going down a set of stairs when they first start exploring the house together?
(a) A torture chamber.
(b) An Olympic-sized swimming pool.
(c) A makeshift laboratory.
(d) An oubliette.

3. What runs beneath the concrete bridge?
(a) A tarn.
(b) Nothing. The bridge is a decorative object over a decorative pond.
(c) A trickling stream.
(d) A mostly dry riverbed.

4. In Lionel Barrett's article, to what does he compare sensitives?
(a) Actors.
(b) Fortune tellers.
(c) Shamans.
(d) Geiger counters.

5. What is Florence Tanner's purpose in going to Hell House?
(a) To cleanse it.
(b) To make it into a sanctuary for her parishoners.
(c) To burn it down.
(d) To perform an exorcism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens during the argument between Florence and Lionel?

2. In which state is Hell House located?

3. What color are the draperies in the ballroom?

4. Where does Florence feel a malignant presence on her second walk through of the house?

5. What does Lionel have the carpenter construct?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Florence react to the steam room and wine cellar? What seems to trigger her reactions, and what does she say will "cure" the house?

2. Why does Deutsch ask Dr. Lionel Barrett to stay in Hell House?

3. How did Ben support himself after the first experience at Hell House? Why did he follow this particular path?

4. What is the purpose of the cabinet Florence is put in and the costume she is given to wear?

5. Why is Florence unable to enter the chapel in Hell House?

6. How does Lionel specifically describe the occurrences at Hell House?

7. What is on the list that Edith finds, and why does it disturb her so much?

8. Hell House is said to have reached the pinnacle of evil in 1928. What sort of events were said to occur that year?

9. In what condition was Ben found after his first experience at Hell House?

10. What does Barrett demand of Deutsch in order to complete the Hell House project?

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