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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 the table covered in one morning when Isobel goes downstairs?
(a) Lottery tickets.
(b) Receipts.
(c) Maps.
(d) Raw meat.

2. What does Charlotte tell the children about their father?
(a) He is with their mother, and they will be home in a week.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He has married someone else.

3. For what do the Baxters make excuses?
(a) Their son not coming with them.
(b) Their daughter not coming with them.
(c) Not bringing the wine they said they were going to bring.
(d) Not eating the undercooked meat.

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

5. What does Mr. Baxter retire?
(a) He has injuried a young boy.
(b) He is ill.
(c) He is at the retirement age.
(d) He does not retire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles collect?

2. What is Lady Fairfax known to do?

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

4. Why is Malcolm's mother disappointed?

5. What does Isobel do when she hears a voice?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens when Charles is eight years old?

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

9. Describe how Charles and Isobel are born.

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

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