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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 does Vinny do with what Charles offers Gordon?
(a) Eats it herself.
(b) Throws it out the window.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Snatches it away.

2. How do girls find Isobel's brother?
(a) Witty.
(b) Boorish.
(c) Handsome.
(d) Not attractive.

3. For how long have historians searched for the Fairfax jewel?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) A few months.
(d) 400 years.

4. Who looks after the children until Charlotte and Vinny get home every day?
(a) Gordon.
(b) No one.
(c) Mrs. Baxter.
(d) Audrey.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Eliza do when she goes into labor with Isobel?

3. What does Vinny do with anything Mr. Rice leaves at the house?

4. Of what does Isobel have no memory?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Isobel observe on a visit to the Baxters in autumn?

3. Describe how Charles and Isobel are born.

4. Where is Audrey's mother and how has her mother impacted Audrey and Charles' life?

5. What happens when Charles is eight years old?

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

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

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

9. What leads to Isobel's house being infested with fleas?

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

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