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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 Isobel see when she experiences a time warp in this section?
(a) Eliza in a past life in the 1700s.
(b) Eliza as a child.
(c) Her father as a fighter pilot.
(d) A young Vinny.

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

3. What is the date of the setting of the novel?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1745.
(d) 1945.

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

5. Where does Gordon meet Eliza?
(a) When he is imprisoned in Germany in WWII.
(b) At the opera.
(c) When he goes to a polo match after WWII.
(d) When he rescues her from a bombed building.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Malcolm Lovat?

3. What does Vinny do with what Charles offers Gordon?

4. What does Richard Primrose do when he enters Isobel's room?

5. How is the play Isobel attends?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What are the circumstances surrounding Charlotte's death?

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

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

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

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

9. Give a very brief synopsis of the Fairfax family's status over time.

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

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