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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Val believed about Roland and Maud, until she learns more at the horse race?
(a) That Roland and Maud were nothing more than colleagues.
(b) That Roland and Maud didn't know each other.
(c) That Roland and Maud were enemies.
(d) That Roland and Maud were having an affair.

2. Who will go and spy on Cropper and Hildebrand Ash?
(a) Roland and Maud.
(b) Val and Euan.
(c) Maud and Blackadder.
(d) Roland and Beatrice.

3. Who calls Blackadder's office on Sir George's behalf?
(a) Cropper.
(b) Sir George's lawyer.
(c) Roland.
(d) Maud.

4. When did Ellen first know about Christabel?
(a) Long before Ash told her.
(b) When Ash first told her, right after the affair.
(c) After Ash's death.
(d) When Ash finally told her, years after the affair.

5. What does Dr. LeMinier give Maude?
(a) A copy of Sabine's journal.
(b) A letter to Sabine from Christabel.
(c) A drawing by Sabine.
(d) A letter from Sabine.

6. What do Maud and Roland do when they find other scholars have followed the trail to France?
(a) They offer to join forces with the others.
(b) They leave the area.
(c) They give up looking for the truth.
(d) They tell the other scholars to leave.

7. What is Cropper hoping to do, with the help of Hildebrand Ash?
(a) Tear down Randolph Ash's former home.
(b) Dig up Randolph Ash's former garden.
(c) Transport Randolph Ash's former home to America.
(d) Dig up Ellen and Randolph Ash's graves.

8. What advice does Leonora give Blackadder?
(a) She tells him to make Ash seem sexy.
(b) She tells him to make Ash seem villanous.
(c) She tells him to be honest and exact.
(d) She tells him to play down Ash's importance.

9. How does Roland feel toward the cats?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Irritated.
(c) Angry.
(d) Afraid.

10. What does the medium ask the apprentice to do while serving tea?
(a) Hide a letter in someone's pocket.
(b) Attach a wire to the table.
(c) Eavesdrop to gain information.
(d) Hide gloves in the curtains.

11. At what pace do Christabel and Ash walk?
(a) A slow pace.
(b) Different paces from each other.
(c) A varying pace, but in synch.
(d) A fast pace.

12. What type of box does Ellen find to put Christabel's memento in?
(a) A jewel box.
(b) A puzzle box.
(c) A shoe box.
(d) A specimen box.

13. Where does Val tell Fergus that Roland is?
(a) Val thinks Roland is looking at a book for Blackadder.
(b) Val thinks Roland is at an auction in Paris.
(c) Val thinks Roland is at a conference in Northern England.
(d) Val thinks Roland is in Italy at a museum.

14. How do Maud and Roland travel to France?
(a) By plane.
(b) By ship.
(c) By train.
(d) By car.

15. What does the group hope to do?
(a) Get Cropper and Hildebrand to fight with each other.
(b) Catch Cropper bribing Hildebrand.
(c) Catch Cropper and Hildebrand digging up graves.
(d) Get reporters to write a negative story about Cropper.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Leonora and Cropper make contact in France?

2. Who does Christabel express that she wants to have her letters?

3. Who does Cropper lunch with to acquire more of Ash's items, since the current Lord Ash does not particularly like Cropper?

4. What do Sabine and her father worry might happen?

5. Where is Melusine when the knight finds her?

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