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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16, 17 and 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Duncan surprised at being served at dinner?
(a) Because Madelyne trains Ansel to serve at the table.
(b) Because Duncan never eats with the rest of the family.
(c) Because Duncan believes that soldiers have no use for good manners.
(d) Because Madelyne declares that Duncan does not eat with her that night.

2. Why does Madelyne say during the marriage ceremony that she willingly takes the groom as her husband?
(a) She is afraid that Gilard is going to challenge Duncan.
(b) She is gloriously happy to be wed.
(c) She is reading the words written for her to say, but saying them against her will.
(d) She is being forced to lie.

3. What does Edmund want to do for Adela to help her heal?
(a) Allow Adela to threaten Madelyne with a knife.
(b) Send Adela to live with Catherine.
(c) Keep Madelyne away from Adela.
(d) Send for Catherine.

4. Whose cast-off garments does Madelyne take in to make smaller?
(a) Adela's.
(b) Her own.
(c) Catherine's.
(d) Gerty's.

5. Why does Duncan return to the hall after Madelyne goes to bed?
(a) To eat his first meal of the day.
(b) To talk some sense into Adela.
(c) To sit with Adela while she eats.
(d) To command cooperation from his brothers on his plan for Madelyne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who pays an unexpected call on Duncan's fortress in Chapter 15?

2. Who wants to save Madelyne but is refused?

3. What surprises Madelyne about the room she stays in while she is sick and recovering?

4. Why does Duncan think that Gerald has the "patience of Job and the endurance of forged steel'?

5. Who is Father Laurence?

(see the answer key)

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