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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Roland live with?
(a) No one.
(b) His parents.
(c) A group of graduate students.
(d) His girlfriend.

2. Who came to see Ellen while her husband was away?
(a) Ash's mother.
(b) Ash's father.
(c) Christabel.
(d) Blanche.

3. Where do Roland and Maud decide to go together to further their investigation?
(a) To Ash's family home.
(b) To follow a journey that Christabel made alone.
(c) To Blanche's family home.
(d) To the location they suspect Ash and Christabel went.

4. Where do Mud and Roland decide to go to take a break from Ash and Cristabel?
(a) Boggle Hole.
(b) Prewty Fog.
(c) Toogie Mott.
(d) Antwerp Denn.

5. Who is interested in Christabel LaMotte's writings?
(a) Freudians.
(b) Feminists.
(c) Reader-response critics.
(d) Structuralists.

6. Whose diary does Roland read at the Women's Resource Center?
(a) Blanche Glover's.
(b) Maud Bailey's.
(c) Sir George Bailey's.
(d) Christabel LaMotte's.

7. Which apparition does the child follow?
(a) The pale apparition.
(b) The golden apparition.
(c) The silver apparition.
(d) The bright blue apparition.

8. How does Christabel react to her feelings of love with Ash?
(a) With hatred toward herself for giving in to a man.
(b) With fear for the loss of her solitude.
(c) With ecstasy that she has finally found spiritual love.
(d) With anger that he is manipulating her.

9. How many letters does Roland find in the book?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

10. What does Swammerdam study?
(a) Swammerdam studies insects and microorganisms.
(b) Swammerdam studies plants and trees.
(c) Swammerdam studies rocks and geological formations.
(d) Swammerdam studies soil and fungi.

11. What are the first letters between Christabel and Ash like?
(a) The first letters are angry recriminations.
(b) The first letters are exchanges of poetic ideas.
(c) The first letters are short, discussing daily activities.
(d) The first letters are passionate love letters.

12. How does Ash address the recipient of the letters?
(a) "My Darling."
(b) "Dear Madam."
(c) "Dear Miss."
(d) "My Dearest Friend."

13. What is the title of the book Roland looks at?
(a) Garden of Proserpina.
(b) Principi di una Scienza.
(c) The Grecian Way of Love.
(d) Pranks of Priapus.

14. What does Roland think Maud should do about her hair?
(a) Let it down.
(b) Shave it off.
(c) Cut it simply.
(d) Dye it brown.

15. What do people think of Swammerdam's discoveries?
(a) People think Swammerdam's discoveries are interesting but unimportant.
(b) People think Swammerdam is insane.
(c) People think Swammerdam is a genius.
(d) People think Swammerdam's discoveries are interesting but too difficult to understand.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Swammerdam compare himself?

2. Whose writing is Fergus studying?

3. Where did Ash meet the woman the letters are addressed to?

4. What does Cropper think about writing while he drives away from Daisy Wapshott's house?

5. What kind of dog does Lady Joan Bailey have?

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