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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. Who is Malcolm Lovat?
(a) Charles' best friend.
(b) The groom.
(c) The man with whom Isobel is in love.
(d) Gordon's brother-in-law.

2. Where do Malcolm and Isobel visit?
(a) Malcolm's mother in the hospital.
(b) An amphitheater in the city park.
(c) Malcolm's grandmother in a nursing home.
(d) A park outside of the town.

3. What does Charlotte Fairfax do?
(a) Runs the family grocery business.
(b) A seamstress.
(c) A librarian.
(d) A nurse.

4. For how long does Gordon disappear after his wife is gone?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 7 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 6 months.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Baxter retire?

2. How many photographs do Isobel and Charles have of their mother?

3. Who does Charles want to see when he wakes?

4. With what is Gordon having difficulty?

5. For what do the Baxters make excuses?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How do Charlotte and Vinny treat Eliza and what is her response?

5. What does Isobel think she sees Mr. Rice doing and what is the outcome?

6. How does Vinny treat the children?

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

8. Describe the interaction between Gordon and his two young children after Gordon returns from the woods.

9. What do the neighbors think of the new baby in the Fairfax household?

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

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