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

2. What does Charlotte want Gordon to do when he finishes school?
(a) Take over the family grocery business.
(b) Go to medical school.
(c) Run for parliament.
(d) Go into law.

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

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

5. What does the flashback in this section concern?
(a) When Eliza is pregnant.
(b) When Charles and Isobel are lost in the woods.
(c) To when Vinny gets married.
(d) When Charlotte opens her grocery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lady Fairfax give Francis Fairfax?

2. In what year does Francis Fairfax arrive in Lythe?

3. Why does Vinny criticize Isobel?

4. What does Charles lament?

5. What is the table covered in one morning when Isobel goes downstairs?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Isobel say are Charles' hobbies, and how does he relate one of his hobbies to his mother?

4. What happens when Charles is eight years old?

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

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

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

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

9. Describe how Charles and Isobel are born.

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

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