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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 is Mr. Baxter's position?
(a) Chief of police.
(b) Mayor.
(c) Choirmaster of the Anglican church.
(d) Headmaster of the elementary school.

2. What does Charlotte say about Eliza one day to the children?
(a) She is not coming back.
(b) She is in a hospital and cannot wake up.
(c) She will be home the next day.
(d) She is dead.

3. What does Richard Primrose do when he enters Isobel's room?
(a) Gives her some information about her mother.
(b) Asks her to the prom.
(c) Attacks her.
(d) Reads her part of a Shakespeare play.

4. Where does Gordon meet Eliza?
(a) At the opera.
(b) When he rescues her from a bombed building.
(c) When he is imprisoned in Germany in WWII.
(d) When he goes to a polo match after WWII.

5. What is Mr. Primrose wearing when Isobel spies him?
(a) A swim suit.
(b) A pair of cowboy boots with a tuxedo.
(c) A dress.
(d) A fedora hat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isobel want to ask Audrey?

2. Why is Mr. Rice in trouble with Debbie?

3. What do Charles and Isobel find when they go into the woods to look for their parents?

4. What does Mr. Baxter retire?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Vinny treat the children?

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

4. Who is Francis Fairfax, and what does the narrator write about him?

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

6. What are the signs that Vinny is a poor caregiver for the children?

7. Give a very brief synopsis of the Fairfax family's status over time.

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

9. What business does Charlotte run and what are her long term intentions?

10. What does Isobel find at the back door when she and Isobel are home alone?

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