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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vinny suspect Mr. Rice of doing?
(a) Stealing a bottle of wine from her cellar.
(b) Dropping a nail on the driveway which her tire picks up.
(c) Being mean to the new puppy.
(d) Harming one of her cats.

2. What does Isobel see outside the window while washing dishes?
(a) A raccoon eating one of their chickens.
(b) A fox running across the yard with a chicken in his jaws.
(c) Mr. Rice dancing in the rain.
(d) Mr. Rice exposing himself.

3. What does Charles say they must do?
(a) Help Charlotte.
(b) Help Eliza.
(c) Find Vinny.
(d) Go home.

4. What does Vinny want Isobel to get her?
(a) A recipe from a neighbor.
(b) Some money.
(c) A recommendation for a job.
(d) A better pair of shoes.

5. What birthday is Isobel celebrating when this section opens?
(a) 22.
(b) 33.
(c) 60.
(d) 50.

6. What does Charles give Gordon?
(a) A book.
(b) A piece of his chocolate.
(c) Eliza's shoe.
(d) Eliza's ring.

7. What is Francis Fairfax's main occupation?
(a) Adventurer.
(b) Astronomer.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Advocate.

8. What is Lady Fairfax known to do?
(a) Have fits of anger.
(b) Hold seances.
(c) Have fits of hysteria.
(d) Walk in the woods.

9. How do girls find Isobel's brother?
(a) Boorish.
(b) Handsome.
(c) Not attractive.
(d) Witty.

10. What does Isobel say about her size?
(a) She is a dwarf.
(b) She is over six feet tall and very beautiful.
(c) She is large.
(d) She is petite.

11. What do Charles and Isobel watch during the night?
(a) Their father drive away.
(b) Their mother come in the front door.
(c) Their father slap Charlotte.
(d) Their father slap Vinny.

12. With what is Gordon having difficulty?
(a) Getting Isobel to get a job.
(b) Lighting the grill.
(c) Stopping from crying about his wife.
(d) Getting Charles to talk with him.

13. Who is Debbie?
(a) One of the neighbors.
(b) Gordon's second wife.
(c) Gordon's sister.
(d) One of Isobel's children.

14. Who does Charles want to see when he wakes?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Isobel.
(c) Gordon.
(d) Charlotte.

15. What does Gordon give Eliza for Christmas one year?
(a) A gold ring with emerals and diamonds.
(b) A new car.
(c) A diamond necklace.
(d) A trip to her native Australia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Isobel notice about Aubrey one day?

3. What does Charlotte say about Eliza one day to the children?

4. What does Richard Primrose do when he enters Isobel's room?

5. Who looks after the children until Charlotte and Vinny get home every day?

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