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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. What does Isobel want to ask Audrey?
(a) Why she told Malcolm a secret Isobel told her.
(b) If she is leaving home.l
(c) If she will run away with Isobel.
(d) If she left the baby.

2. Who looks after the children until Charlotte and Vinny get home every day?
(a) No one.
(b) Gordon.
(c) Mrs. Baxter.
(d) Audrey.

3. Where does Gordon say Eliza is?
(a) In the hospital.
(b) At home.
(c) In a motel.
(d) At the police station.

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

5. What do Charles and Isobel find when they go into the woods to look for their parents?
(a) Their aunt who is very ill.
(b) Their mother who is either dead or unconscious.
(c) No one.
(d) A puppy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lady Fairfax give Francis Fairfax?

2. What does Charles lament?

3. What does Isobel find when searching Vinny's wardrobe?

4. What is Francis Fairfax's main occupation?

5. What does Vinny suspect Mr. Rice of doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Isobel, the narrator at the beginning of the novel, discuss in the first part of the novel?

2. How is Mr. Rice presented in a less-than-favorable narrative?

3. What gets Debbie's party off to a bad start?

4. Where does Malcolm take Isobel, and what happens there?

5. What are the circumstances surrounding Charlotte's death?

6. What does Francis Fairfax give his new wife and what happens to the present?

7. How does Debbie explain the raw meat on the table one morning?

8. What leads to Isobel's house being infested with fleas?

9. How does Isobel come to find a single, unusual shoe in Vinny's closet and what is Vinny's reaction?

10. How do Isobel and Charles find their mother and what do they do?

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