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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. How long does Madelyne sleep after Edmund sews up her wound?
(a) Until the next afternoon.
(b) Two days.
(c) Almost twenty-four hours straight.
(d) Fitfully for the next several days.

2. Who comes to take Madelyne downstairs for her first meal after her fever?
(a) Edmond.
(b) Gilard.
(c) Catherine.
(d) Duncan.

3. Why is Madelyne embarrassed in Chapter 12?
(a) Because Duncan yells at her in front of Adela.
(b) Because she looks disheveled.
(c) Because the room she is cleaning is still dirty.
(d) Because Duncan yells at her in front of Gilard.

4. Why does Madelyne want to throw herself out of a window?
(a) Because Duncan is going to return her to Louddon.
(b) Because she is bored.
(c) Because she becomes afraid of Duncan again.
(d) Because Duncan seems to forget about her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Duncan doing when Madelyne sees him out her window?

2. What animal does Madelyne feed outside the walls of the fortress?

3. Who appears at the entrance to the hall after Madelyn's first meal in the hall of Duncan's fortress, much to Madelyne's consternation?

4. What hope does Madelyne foster in Chapter Two after it is discovered that Louddon leaves the castle?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Duncan's reaction to Madelyne's actions to rescue and warm him?

2. As Madelyne is planning her escape from Duncan, what obstacles does she think she needs to overcome?

3. How does it happen that Adela takes her first bath in months?

4. In what way does Duncan begin the battle?

5. Which other men does Duncan notice are attracted to Madelyne?

6. Why does Madelyne refuse to let Simon save her?

7. Why does Duncan think that Madelyne helps Adela heal?

8. What kinds of things does Madelyne do during the enforced isolation during her recovery?

9. After stopping for the night and traveling the next day, why does Gilard nag Duncan to stop their journey?

10. Why does Louddon decide to go after Duncan once he discovers the destruction at the castle?

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