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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What poem does Roland think shows Christabel was in Yorkshire?
(a) Perceptions of Passing.
(b) White Linen.
(c) Beginnings and Endings.
(d) The Fairy Melusina.

3. How does Roland feel about the library?
(a) He loves it.
(b) He is afraid of it.
(c) He hates it.
(d) He is bored by it.

4. Where does Cropper live?
(a) In a large ranch in Texas.
(b) In a penthouse in New York.
(c) In a mansion in New Mexico.
(d) In a lodge in Colorado.

5. What hotel do Maud and Roland go to?
(a) The Marsh Alby Manor Hotel.
(b) The Andover Colby Tanner Hotel.
(c) The Mark Loudy Kenn Hotel.
(d) The Hoff Lunn Spout Hotel.

6. What does Christabel compare herself to?
(a) A doll.
(b) A box.
(c) A tree.
(d) An egg.

7. Whose writing is Fergus studying?
(a) Milton.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) Flaubert.
(d) Balzac.

8. Whose writings on Christabel does Maud give Roland?
(a) Ellen Ash's.
(b) Beatrice Nest's.
(c) Leonora Stern's.
(d) Maud's own.

9. Where is the largest collection of Ash's books housed?
(a) Sapienza, Università di Roma in Rome.
(b) Robert Dale Owen University in New Mexico.
(c) University of Cambridge in England.
(d) The Randolph Henry Ash Collection in Wisconsin.

10. How long have Maud and Roland given themselves to work?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Two days.
(c) Five days.
(d) A month.

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

12. What does Blackadder do when Roland tells him about the notes in the book?
(a) He sends three graduate students to examine the notes.
(b) He goes to see the curator of the library to try to acquire the notes.
(c) He rushes to look at the notes.
(d) He tells Roland the notes are meaningless.

13. Who does Christabel say stole a letter and poem from Ash?
(a) Ellen.
(b) Blanche.
(c) Fate.
(d) Her mother.

14. What does Maud learn about the pin she is wearing on her turban?
(a) It is worthless costume jewelry.
(b) It is likely one of a matching pair.
(c) It is a famous jem that was stolen years ago.
(d) It is possibly a family heirloom from the 1800s.

15. Does Ash think that Christabel can be both a muse and a poet?
(a) No, Ash thinks she can be only one or the other.
(b) No, Ash thinks she can only be a poet, but never a muse.
(c) Yes, Ash thinks she can be his muse and her own poet.
(d) Yes, but not at the same time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What attraction of Roland's apartment is forbidden to him?

2. Why does Lady Joan invite Maud and Roland to stay overnight at Seal Court?

3. Where do Roland and Maud think Ash and Christabel went together?

4. Who does Roland live with?

5. What library is Roland in at the beginning of Chapter 1?

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