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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 the Fairfax family buy in the 20th century?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A library of old books.
(c) A house built on their previous manor.
(d) An estate in a neighboring county.

2. What does Isobel want to ask Audrey?
(a) Why she told Malcolm a secret Isobel told her.
(b) If she left the baby.
(c) If she is leaving home.l
(d) If she will run away with Isobel.

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

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

5. What does Gordon give Eliza for Christmas one year?
(a) A new car.
(b) A diamond necklace.
(c) A gold ring with emerals and diamonds.
(d) A trip to her native Australia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Charles want to see when he wakes?

2. Why do the Baxters call their home "Sithean"?

3. What is Francis Fairfax's main occupation?

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

5. Where does Isobel think she has been transported one day on her way home from school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Vinny treat the children?

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

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

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

5. What happens when Charles is eight years old?

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

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

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

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