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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. How can Margret's work be best described?
(a) Political.
(b) Energizing.
(c) Tedious.
(d) Stimulating.

2. What is Mr. Holmes aware of as he sits in his room?
(a) His labored breathing.
(b) Margaret is in an office on the floor beneath him.
(c) The sound of a nearby train.
(d) How quiet the mill is at night.

3. Margret thinks that the doctor has always looked at her ___________________.
(a) With tenderness.
(b) With bemusement.
(c) With a savage scorn.
(d) With love.

4. Where does Mr. Howth wait for Margret's return home?
(a) The den.
(b) The living room.
(c) The porch.
(d) The kitchen.

5. What does Margret feel will return?
(a) War.
(b) Illness.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Comfort and beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lois do after her father goes to bed?

2. What was Mr. Howth's profession?

3. What is Mrs. Howth doing as Margret does her chores?

4. Where did Lois Yare work as a child?

5. What kind of dog does Margret have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Margaret realizes that someone follows her home? Who is it an why is he following her?

2. What element of foreshadowing does the author use in Chapter 2?

3. What do the footsteps in the hall signify for Margret?

4. What is the plan that Mr. Holmes intends to launch on Christmas Eve?

5. What is Lois' impression of Miss Herne as she passes by Lois' wagon?

6. How is Mr. Holmes conflicted in his marriage decision?

7. How does the author reveal about Lois' character and her spirituality?

8. What is Lois' philosophy in life?

9. Where does Dr. Knowles take Margret after he finds her sitting against the stone wall on the roadside?

10. How does Mr. Holmes finally work up the nerve to propose to Margret?

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