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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. In "Three: A Girl," what is the subject of a picture that hides the safe at Pye Hall?
(a) Horse in front of a stable.
(b) Family portrait.
(c) Meadow and woodlands.
(d) Picture of the manor house.

2. In "Four: A Boy," how old does Robert say that he was when his family moved to the Lodge House?
(a) 13.
(b) 11.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

3. In "Four: A Boy," who took down Joy's notice at the bus station?
(a) A bus driver.
(b) A policeman.
(c) Clarissa.
(d) Joy.

4. In "Four: A Boy," how many years does a journal span that Mary kept with comments about villagers?
(a) 2 1/2 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 3 1/2 years.

5. What is the date in "One: Sorrow"?
(a) January 3, 1963.
(b) August 29, 1981.
(c) July 23, 1955.
(d) April 11, 1974.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "One: Sorrow," how much younger was Clarissa than her brother Magnus?

2. How long did Atticus Pund spend in one of Hitler's concentration camps?

3. In "Two, Joy," how long would Pund need to finish his book The Landscape of Criminal Investigation?

4. When was Brent, the groundsman, at Pye Hall born?

5. In "Two: Joy," what is Joy Sanderling's real name?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Three: A Girl," what does Henrietta want to ask her husband?

2. In "Two: Joy," what family history does Pund think about?

3. In "Three: A Girl," what does Inspector Chubb say about Frances Pye finding her husband's body?

4. In "Five: Silver," what does Clarissa decide to do after learning that she was the child born first?

5. In "Two: Joy," what does Pund's doctor tell him?

6. In "Four: A Boy," what does Inspector Chubb learn about Johnny Whitehead?

7. In "One: Sorrow," what does Henrietta Osborne say about funerals and Mary Blakiston?

8. In "Two: Joy," why does Magnus come to see his sister Clarissa?

9. In "Three: A Girl," what is the subject of a letter dated July 28, 1955, found on Sir Magnus's desk?

10. In "Five: Silver," what is Brent's house like?

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