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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Richard Primrose told other boys?
(a) That his father has been appointed to an important govenment position.
(b) False stories about Isobel.
(c) That he is attending Oxford next year.
(d) That he is attending Cambridge next year.

2. How did Gordon "kill" Eliza?
(a) He wanted her to change and thus killed her spirit.
(b) He paid a thug to kill her.
(c) He beat her to death.
(d) He drowned her.

3. What does Violet Angela intend to do when she returns to Maude and Herbert's house after leaving?
(a) Destroy everything in the house.
(b) Ask their forgiveness.
(c) Ask who her real mother and father are.
(d) Kill them.

4. Who dies in a car accident in 1962?
(a) Malcolm.
(b) Hilary.
(c) Gordon.
(d) Carmen.

5. What is Debbie engrossed in doing?
(a) Making mince pies.
(b) Playing pick up sticks.
(c) Decorating the tree.
(d) Bathing the baby.

6. What does Isobel notice about the party guests?
(a) They are all very friendly.
(b) They are all quite drunk.
(c) She knows almost no one.
(d) They are all much older than she is.

7. What does Isobel do on Christmas eve?
(a) Walks over to Audrey's home at six a.m.
(b) Get up really early to finish making a present for Charles.
(c) Sleep into the afternoon.
(d) Get up really early to finish making a present for Gordon.

8. What happens when Isobel helps Debbie to the couch?
(a) She dies.
(b) She falls asleep.
(c) She goes into a coma.
(d) She goes into labor.

9. What does the family hear outside as they are enjoying their Christmas?
(a) A chainsaw.
(b) An owl hooting.
(c) A car horn.
(d) A tractor starting.

10. Who is Renee?
(a) Isobel's dog.
(b) Debbie's baby.
(c) Gordon's mistress.
(d) Charles' girlfriend.

11. Why does Lady Margaret kill herself?
(a) Sir Francis orders her to a convent.
(b) Lady Fairfax takes Lady Margaret's baby and gives it to a young couple.
(c) Sir Francis orders her to marry a man thirty years her senior
(d) She does not kill herself.

12. What does Gordon do one day when Eliza is sleeping?
(a) Goes through her belongings.
(b) Draws a picture of her asleep.
(c) Writes her a letter.
(d) Cuts a lock of her hair.

13. Where is Gordon headed when this chapter opens?
(a) To report to the squadron commander.
(b) His lodgings.
(c) To find one of his crew members.
(d) To report to his Commanding Officer.

14. How do Hilary and Richard supposedly die?
(a) In a fire.
(b) Malcolm hits them in his car by accident.
(c) In a train wreck.
(d) On a motorcycle.

15. Who is Charles' biological father?
(a) A red-haired soldier.
(b) Gordon Fairfax.
(c) Sir Edward de Breville.
(d) Mr. Primrose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lady Fairfax spent a great deal of time?

2. What has Gordon been doing at the opening of this chapter?

3. Who is narrating "The Original Sin"?

4. What happens to Malcolm's car?

5. Where does Malcolm say he is going?

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