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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Roland read after he gets back to his apartment?
(a) Christabel's The City of Is.
(b) Ash's The Golden Apples.
(c) Ash's Mummy Possest.
(d) Christabel's The Fairy Melusina.

2. 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.

3. What poem is James Blackadder annotating at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) The Garden of Proserpina.
(b) Swammerdam.
(c) Ragnarök III.
(d) Mummy Possest.

4. Where do Maud, Roland, Euan, Val, and Toby decide the letters should go?
(a) To Blackadder.
(b) To the British Museum.
(c) To Cropper.
(d) To the London Library.

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

6. What happens as Cropper and Hildebrand start to dig?
(a) A hailstorm starts.
(b) A rainstorm starts.
(c) A snowstorm starts.
(d) A windstorm starts.

7. What is the name of the knight in THE FAIRY MELUSINE?
(a) Rollamonte
(b) Restrafore
(c) Raimondin
(d) Reardinaire

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

9. What does Cropper entice Sir George by offering?
(a) A wing at a museum.
(b) An aricle about him.
(c) A trip.
(d) Money.

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

11. Who does Fergus tell that he thinks Roland has found some unknown letters?
(a) Blackadder.
(b) Maud.
(c) Val.
(d) Cropper.

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

13. Where does Val tell Fergus that Roland is?
(a) Val thinks Roland is in Italy at a museum.
(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 looking at a book for Blackadder.

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

15. What document have Toby and Euan uncovered?
(a) A will dictated by Christabel to her sister.
(b) An unknown autobiographical poem written by Christabel.
(c) A message from Christabel to the deceased Blanche.
(d) A later letter written from Christabel to Ash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Roland discover happened to his landlady?

2. What is Sir George's attitude toward Maud after he sees his lawyer?

3. What is Beatrice Nest concerned about?

4. What difference between himself and Maud makes Roland feel as if he is in a romance novel?

5. How long have Maud and Roland been in France before the other scholars arrive?

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