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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Philip say that widows support themselves, aside from remarrying?
(a) Live off their husband's money.
(b) Sell their rings.
(c) Work as maids.
(d) Become beggars.

2. What does Philip say that the people at church may suspect of Italians?
(a) They may all be ugly.
(b) They may be black.
(c) They may have spotted skin.
(d) They may all look like the Mona Lisa.

3. What surprises Seecombe about Rachel's request to take a bath?
(a) She requested that he send for a woman to help her.
(b) She carried her own water to the tub.
(c) He did not think Italians bathed.
(d) She refused any help to wash her hair.

4. What expensive household item does Rachel give Philip as a gift?
(a) A silver tea service.
(b) A chandelier for the dining room.
(c) Coverings for the blue room.
(d) A chaise lounge for his library.

5. What disorder does Ambrose compare Rachel's spending to?
(a) Obsessive compulsive disorder.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Kleptomania.
(d) Multiple personality disorder.

6. What does Philip say he did as a child when he was in church?
(a) Played marbles.
(b) Read.
(c) Slept.
(d) Listened attentively.

7. What is Philip relieved to see when he is out walking on the night Rainaldi visits?
(a) Rainaldi and Rachel arguing.
(b) The carriage returning to pick Rainaldi up.
(c) There is a light on in Rachel's room and in Rainaldi's room, too.
(d) The stable hands readying a horse for Rainaldi to leave.

8. Who is at the house when Philip returns from seeing the attorney about giving Rachel the estate?
(a) Rainaldi.
(b) Louise.
(c) Mr. Couch.
(d) Nick Kendall.

9. What does Rachel wear to church that Philip asks her to remove?
(a) A pearl collar.
(b) A veil.
(c) An expensive looking brooch.
(d) Her wedding rings.

10. What does Philip ask Rachel to see that he learned about in a letter from Ambrose?
(a) A locket with a picture of Philip's mother.
(b) A photograph of Rachel's and Ambrose's wedding.
(c) An old family Bible.
(d) An unsigned will.

11. Why does Philip go to the bank before Christmas?
(a) To sell a piece of land.
(b) To choose a piece of jewelry to give to Rachel.
(c) To revoke Rachel's allowance.
(d) To arrange to increase Rachel's allowance.

12. Why does Rachel think that Ambrose left her out of his will?
(a) He believed she had no right to the estate because it was already promised to Philip.
(b) He did not really love her.
(c) He lost faith in her after she had a miscarriage.
(d) He knew she would spend all the money.

13. What reason does Rachel give Philip for never inviting Rainaldi to the villa after Ambrose became ill?
(a) Ambrose believed she and Rainaldi were having an affair.
(b) Rainaldi was afraid of Ambrose's violent outbursts.
(c) She was afraid Rainaldi was poisoning Ambrose.
(d) She did not want Ambrose to figure out that Rainaldi was in love with her.

14. What kind of lessons does Rachel want to teach?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Italian.
(c) English.
(d) Gardening.

15. Where is Don buried?
(a) Near Ambrose's granite stone.
(b) Under a laburnum tree.
(c) In the plantation.
(d) In the pet cemetery near the kennels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rachel tell Philip to marry Louise quickly after their first dinner with the Pascoes and Kendalls?

2. What is Philip reminded of when Rainaldi insults his pipe smoking?

3. Who rides home from church with Philip after he and Rachel go for the first time?

4. What does Rachel do with the pearl collar when she hears Philip and Nick Kendall arguing about it?

5. What suspicion did Ambrose have about Rainaldi?

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