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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 Ben tell Edith to do to keep her from wandering away from her husband?
(a) Lock herself in her room.
(b) Tie her wrist to the bed.
(c) Take a sleeping pill.
(d) All of the answers are correct.

2. How is Lionel killed?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Breaking his neck.
(d) Suffocation.

3. What room does the group begin working on the morning after Florence's attack?
(a) The chapel.
(b) The pool area.
(c) The steam room.
(d) The wine cellar.

4. What happens to Lionel's manuscript after he dies?
(a) It shreds itself.
(b) It disappears.
(c) It rots.
(d) It burns.

5. What happened to Grace Lauter, who came to the house to free the spirits of what she thought were two sisters?
(a) She drowned herself.
(b) She disappeared.
(c) She cut her own throat.
(d) She was killed when she fell down the stairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Florence insist that the group must do the morning after her attack in Chapter 30?

2. What does the group do with the body that they find in the wine cellar?

3. What does Lionel ask Edith to get for him when they go to bed?

4. How does Edith react to the phenomenon she sees while lying awake?

5. What phrase does Florence repeat after she is discovered naked in her room?

Short Essay Questions

1. To whom does Ben compare Florence's belief that Daniel haunts Hell House, and what happened to that person?

2. Why do you think Florence wrote the letter "B" in her own blood on the chapel floor? What do you think she was trying to tell the Barretts and Ben?

3. What is the operating premise of the Reversor?

4. Explain in detail what Florence does to rid herself of Daniel's possession.

5. What happens when Florence attacks Edith, and what secret does Florence reveal about Edith's childhood?

6. Why is Florence's sitting after finding Daniel Belasco so important?

7. Describe Daniel Belasco's exhumation and reburial.

8. What happens to Florence after she finally gives in to Daniel's pleas?

9. Ben and Lionel believe that Florence has created the ghost of Daniel Belasco. Florence vehemently denies this until she is struck with a sudden, painful memory. What is that memory, and who has she come to believe the ghost of Daniel Belasco really is?

10. What happens forty-five minutes after Lionel starts the Reversor, and why does he tell Ben that he needs Ben's presence in the house?

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