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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 Audrey doing during the lecture that bores Isobel?
(a) Writing a poem.
(b) Taking copious notes.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Eating a bag of peanuts.

2. What does Vinny do with anything Mr. Rice leaves at the house?
(a) Gives it to a local homeless man.
(b) Gives it to a thrift shop.
(c) Burns it all.
(d) Packs it in a box and puts it in the cellar.

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

4. What does Isobel notice about Aubrey one day?
(a) She has changed the color of her lipstick.
(b) She has a bad cough.
(c) She seems to be gaining weight.
(d) She has grown a couple inches.

5. Where does Isobel think she has been transported one day on her way home from school?
(a) Mars.
(b) The 12th century.
(c) The 19th century.
(d) The 16th century.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the flashback in this section concern?

2. Who claims to be the mother of the baby?

3. What does Isobel say about her size?

4. What does Charlotte want Gordon to do when he finishes school?

5. What does Gordon give Eliza for Christmas one year?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Isobel write about both her and her brother's physical looks?

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

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

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

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

7. Describe how Charles and Isobel are born.

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

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

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

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