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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through III. Past: Half-Day Closing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what do the Baxters make excuses?
(a) Not eating the undercooked meat.
(b) Not bringing the wine they said they were going to bring.
(c) Their son not coming with them.
(d) Their daughter not coming with them.

2. Why is Gordon troubled?
(a) Because Vinny is so critical of Isobel.
(b) Because of the shoe Isobel finds in Vinny's closet.
(c) Because Charles wants to move to London.
(d) Because Charles is dating a poor, uneducated woman.

3. What does Debbie have a history of?
(a) Disappearing.
(b) Failed parties.
(c) Hysteria.
(d) Lying.

4. What happens in 1605 at the Fairfax manor?
(a) Francis Fairfax dies.
(b) An outbreak of the smallpox.
(c) Francis Fairfax dies.
(d) The manor burns to the ground.

5. Who goes into Boscrambe Woods first when the family is on a picnic?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Gordon.
(d) Vinny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vinny want Isobel to get her?

2. What does Vinny make no effort to conceal?

3. What does Eliza sometimes do with Charles and Isobel on vacation at the seashore?

4. What is the date of the setting of the novel?

5. Why do the Baxters call their home "Sithean"?

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