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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 Noemí learn about Dr. Cummins in Chapter 22?
(a) He is the servant of the Doyles.
(b) He is a relative of the Doyles.
(c) He is a slave of the Doyles.
(d) He is the master of the Doyles.

2. Why does Noemí refuse to eat breakfast in Chapter 21?
(a) She feels sick to her stomach.
(b) She hears a voice warning her not to eat.
(c) She fears the food has been poisoned.
(d) She watches someone tamper with it.

3. What does Noemí drink at the end of Chapter 24?
(a) Florence's wine.
(b) Harold's blood.
(c) Virgil's poison.
(d) Marta’s tincture.

4. How does Florence describe Noemí’s race in Chapter 23?
(a) As disharmonious.
(b) As compatible.
(c) As incongruous.
(d) As consonant.

5. Who taught Francis to speak Spanish, as revealed in Chapter 22?
(a) His father.
(b) His cousin.
(c) His mother.
(d) His uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Virgil in Chapter 15, why did he marry Catalina?

2. What words are uttered by the man in Noemí’s dream in Chapter 14?

3. According to Ruth in Chapter 23, what exists in the blood of those connected to High Place?

4. According to Francis at the end of Chapter 22, what is Howard about to do?

5. Who is Noemí meant to marry, as revealed at the end of Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the “gloom,” according to Francis in Chapter 20?

2. What important information does Francis give Noemí at end of Chapter 21?

3. How does Howard appear in Chapter 19? What is Noemí forced to do?

4. What is Noemí’s theory regarding the origins of ghosts, as she muses in Chapter 17? How does Francis react to her theory?

5. What happens to Noemí while she is bathing in Chapter 17?

6. What happens to Catalina at the start of Chapter 13?

7. What happens when Noemí attempts to escape High Place at the start of Chapter 21?

8. What strange inscription does Noemí notice in the cemetery at the start of Chapter 14? Why is this inscription strange?

9. Why is Virgil angry with Noemí in Chapter 15?

10. Why does Catalina ask Noemí to do as Chapter 16 begins? What does Noemí discover?

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