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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 does Florence do in the chapel when she awakens after Lionel's phone call?
2. What does Florence find on the body in the wine cellar?
3. What was Daniel Belasco's date of birth?
4. What does Ben do with Florence's body after he discovers it?
5. How does Edith react to the phenomenon she sees while lying awake?
Short Essay Questions
1. On what does Lionel blame Edith's overtly sexual behavior toward Ben?
2. Why is Florence's sitting after finding Daniel Belasco so important?
3. 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?
4. What is the operating premise of the Reversor?
5. Lionel and Edith have an awkward moment in the steam room, and Edith leaves hastily, slamming the door behind her. What happens to Lionel after he is abandoned in the steam room?
6. What does Lionel do to keep Edith from wandering off while he is asleep? How does this make Edith feel at first? How does it make her feel later?
7. 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?
8. From what does Lionel say that ecotoplasm derives, and from what does he say it is?
9. At 6:47 a.m. on December 23, 1970, Florence once again seems to be the victim of the ghost's violence. Her scream cuts the early morning air. What happens to her, and what are her companions' opinions of the incident?
10. If there was a moral to the story of Hell House, what would it be and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Where does the group find the remains of Daniel Belasco? How did he come to be there, and how did he die? Compare/contrast the importance of this discovery to Florence and to Lionel.
Essay Topic 2
Outline the history of Hell House prior to the second group's expedition, including Bastard Bog's history. Does this history foreshadow the events that may occur at Hell House during the 1970 experiment? If so, how? Cite specific examples from the text to support your theory.
Essay Topic 3
The physicist, Lionel Barrett, is to be accompanied by a spiritualist and a medium. Why do you think he is disappointed with the selection? Whom would he rather have as associates in this situation? Why?
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