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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beatrice Nest have that Cropper wants?
(a) Ellen Ash's journal.
(b) Paintings of Ash.
(c) Letters from Ash.
(d) Ash's father's journal.

2. What is Maud's home like?
(a) Old and decaying.
(b) Messy and noisy.
(c) Lively and changing.
(d) Sterile and tidy.

3. What is Roland's job?
(a) Full-time professor.
(b) Library assistant.
(c) Part-time research assistant.
(d) Unemployed student.

4. Where do Ash and Christabel meet after the incident of the stolen letter?
(a) In a park on a rainy day.
(b) At the house of Ash's cousin.
(c) At the British Museum.
(d) At the coast in Wales.

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

6. To whom does Swammerdam compare himself?
(a) Galileo.
(b) Newton.
(c) Pascal.
(d) Zeno.

7. Where did Ash meet the woman the letters are addressed to?
(a) At a political meeting.
(b) At a university lecture.
(c) At a friend's breakfast.
(d) At a dance.

8. Who do Joan and George Bailey invite to read the letters between Ash and Christabel?
(a) Blackadder.
(b) Maud and Roland.
(c) Beatrice.
(d) Cropper.

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

10. What is Roland's reaction to Val telling him that a man wants to take her away to Newmarket?
(a) He is jealous and angry.
(b) He is relieved that she's leaving.
(c) He says it may do her good.
(d) He says she is making it up.

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

12. What similarity do Roland and Maud find in writings by Ash and Christabel?
(a) None.
(b) Two similar lines in Ask to Embla and Melusina.
(c) Two three-line poems by the two poets that fit together.
(d) Two poems where each line starts with the same word.

13. What does Roland accidentally see?
(a) Maud's nightgown.
(b) Maud's diary.
(c) Maud's long hair.
(d) A letter from Maud.

14. What did Christabel LaMotte write?
(a) Intellectual novels and rigid poetry.
(b) Abstract poems with mysterious meanings.
(c) Several romantic novels.
(d) Religious poems, children's stories and an epic.

15. Does Roland show Maud the letters?
(a) No, he keeps the letters completely secret.
(b) Yes, but he doesn't tell her he took the originals.
(c) No, but he tells her a little bit about the letters.
(d) Yes, but not at first.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is interested in Christabel LaMotte's writings?

2. What advice does the woman give the child at the beginning of the journey?

3. What hotel is Cropper staying at?

4. What is in the box Maud finds?

5. How many letters does Roland find in the book?

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