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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) Receipts.
(b) Lottery tickets.
(c) Raw meat.
(d) Maps.

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

3. What does Vinny make no effort to conceal?
(a) Her out-of-wedlock pregnancy.
(b) Her dislike of Eliza.
(c) Her dislike of Isobel.
(d) Her alcohol consumption.

4. What is Lady Fairfax known to do?
(a) Have fits of hysteria.
(b) Have fits of anger.
(c) Hold seances.
(d) Walk in the woods.

5. What does Isobel end up asking Audrey?
(a) If her father beats her mother.
(b) If there is anything Audrey wants to tell Isobel.
(c) If Audrey wants to go get ice cream.
(d) If her father beats her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do girls find Isobel's brother?

3. What does Charles collect?

4. What does Charles find that he incorporates into his theories about his mother?

5. What birthday is Isobel celebrating when this section opens?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when Charles is eight years old?

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

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

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

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

7. Who is Audrey, and how does her father treat her?

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. How does Vinny treat the children?

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