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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary explain to Jem when he enters her bedroom?
(a) Why Patience can be heard crying.
(b) Where Harry is hiding.
(c) Why the building smells of smoke.
(d) What happened to her on Christmas Eve.

2. In Chapter 4, what does Mary overhear a man in the bar say to Joss, after the other men have left?
(a) That he has killed someone.
(b) That he no longer wishes to participate in the criminal enterprise.
(c) That he wants a bigger cut of their spoils.
(d) That he thinks the law has discovered their crimes.

3. How does Mary find herself alone with Joss in Chapter 8?
(a) Patience goes to bed.
(b) Joss kicks Patience out of the house.
(c) Patience goes to hang laundry.
(d) Patience falls ill.

4. When Mary reaches her destination at the end of Chapter 13, what does she discover?
(a) Joss is already there waiting for her.
(b) Everyone is at a funeral for the sailors.
(c) The vicar is not home.
(d) She has forgotten her evidence against Joss.

5. What does Mary think she can do before Joss notices she's gone in Chapter 13?
(a) Go visit Jem.
(b) Set the horse free.
(c) Collect some food for the journey.
(d) Travel to Altarnun and back.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joss decide to do at the end of Chapter 12?

2. How does Mary feel while being kept indoors in Chapter 5?

3. What causes Mary to go along with Jem's Christmas Eve plans?

4. What alerts Mary to someone being outside in Chapter 13?

5. What does Mary do to stay out of Patience's and Joss's way in Chapter 8?

(see the answer key)

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