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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 is the one problem with the house Mr. Hale and Margaret pick out in Milton?
(a) It is way too expensive.
(b) It is haunted.
(c) It floods every year in the basement.
(d) The ghastly wallpaper.

2. What does Margaret think is the first sign of illness in her mother?
(a) Her confusion.
(b) Her red cheeks.
(c) The blisters that develop on her hands.
(d) Her terrible headaches.

3. Why does the entire Hale household stay up all night after Margaret and Mr. Hale return from the Thorntons' dinner party?
(a) To wait for Mr. Thornton to arrive and propose to Margaret.
(b) To catch up on gossip.
(c) To keep guard against intruders.
(d) To keep watch over Mr. Hale.

4. During dinner at the Hales', who does Mr. Thornton say has an easy life?
(a) All of these answers are correct.
(b) Americans.
(c) Southerners.
(d) Northerners.

5. What does Margaret note about Mr. Thornton during the Thorntons' dinner party?
(a) How handsome he is.
(b) How rude he is.
(c) How rich he is.
(d) How authoritative he sounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Margaret get a message to her brother?

2. What about Margaret takes Mr. Thornton aback during the dinner party?

3. Where do the Hales stop for a few days on their way to Milton?

4. What object do Margaret and Mr. Lennox sketch during his first visit to Helstone?

5. During the tense argument between Mr. THronton and the Hales during their first dinner together, what does Mr. Hale change the topic to to relieve the tension?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Frederick on trial for?

2. What does Bessy claim is the cause for her deteriorating look of health?

3. Where does Frederick live when the reader first learns about him?

4. Why are the Thorntons aghast at Margaret and Mr. Hale's acceptance to their dinner party?

5. How does Margaret prove to Bessy that she indeed knows suffering?

6. What makes Margaret go out in search of household help in Milton when she first arrives?

7. What happens to Mrs. Hale and Dixon once they arrive in Milton?

8. What difference between the northern and southern shopkeepers does Margaret notice in Heston?

9. Why is Margaret happy when the men rejoin the conversation at the Thorntons' big dinner party?

10. Why does Mr. Hale leave his job as a reverend?

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