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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19, 20 and 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Madelyne doing while she tells tales to Adela?
(a) Throwing dirty water out of the window.
(b) Cleaning and rearranging furnishings in Duncan's bedroom.
(c) Lugging a tunk up the stairs.
(d) Cleaning and rearranging furnishings in Adela's bedroom.

2. According to Chapter 11, what is unusual about Duncan when he finds Madelyne?
(a) Duncan just wakes up.
(b) Duncan is carrying a tankard of ale.
(c) Duncan is carrying a Bible.
(d) Duncan is bare-chested and soaking wet.

3. Who brings food and draws a bath for Madelyne after she awakens from her fever?
(a) Adela.
(b) Duncan and Maude.
(c) Gerty.
(d) Gerty and Maude.

4. Why does Duncan think that Gerald has the "patience of Job and the endurance of forged steel'?
(a) Because Gerald listens to Madelyne's awful singing by the hour.
(b) Because Gerald is trying to teach Madelyne how to ride a horse.
(c) Because Adela refuses to come out of her room.
(d) Because Adela's behavior toward Gerald is dreadful.

5. Why does Madelyne prefer death to humiliation?
(a) Madeline is more afraid of rape than death.
(b) Madelyne is weak-minded.
(c) Madelyne is an excessively proud woman.
(d) Madeline is more afraid of horses than Duncan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Madelyne name Duncan's horse Silenus?

2. Madelyne is surprised that one of the Wextons is happy that she marries into the family? Which Wexton is happy?

3. What does Duncan hope happens to Madelyne if Adela is around her?

4. What does Edmund want to do for Adela to help her heal?

5. When Louddon leaves his castle, in which direction does Duncan assume he goes?

(see the answer key)

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