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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Euan say he is advising?
(a) Blackadder.
(b) Roland.
(c) Val.
(d) Maud.

3. What is Maud's actual relationship to Christabel?
(a) She is Christabel's third cousin.
(b) She is Christabel's great-great granddaughter.
(c) She is Christabel's great-great-great niece.
(d) She is no relationship to Christabel.

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

5. What does Blackadder tell Fergus when Fergus asks where Roland is?
(a) Blackadder says Roland is at home.
(b) Blackadder says Roland has the week off.
(c) Blackadder says Roland is in France.
(d) Blackadder says Roland is at the London Library.

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

7. Where do the characters gather to try to decide what to do about the letters and the proposed exhumation?
(a) Maud's apartment.
(b) Euan's office.
(c) Blackadder's office.
(d) Beatrice Nest's house.

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

9. Who does Cropper lunch with to acquire more of Ash's items, since the current Lord Ash does not particularly like Cropper?
(a) Augustus Ash.
(b) Hildebrand Ash.
(c) Blackadder.
(d) Joan Bailey.

10. Who does Euan believe rightfully owns Christabel and Ash's letters today?
(a) Cropper.
(b) Maud.
(c) Sir George.
(d) Roland.

11. Who does the letter say that Christabel LaMotte visited in 1859?
(a) A psychologist named Karmin la Cruz.
(b) Ellen Ash.
(c) Randolf Ash.
(d) A writer named Sabine de Kercoz.

12. What does Ash give to Christabel to wear during their trip?
(a) A ring.
(b) A necklace.
(c) A brooch.
(d) A bracelet.

13. What has happened to Roland's landlady's cats?
(a) They have run off and become feral.
(b) They have run away and have not since been seen in the neighborhood.
(c) They have been taken away by animal control.
(d) They are still in the landlady's apartment.

14. Whose horse wins the horse race?
(a) Sir George's.
(b) Leonore's.
(c) Euan's.
(d) Toby's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calls Roland to warn him about Blackadder?

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

3. What is Cropper hoping to do, with the help of Hildebrand Ash?

4. What does Val say that she's not very good at?

5. Where did Ash get the jewelry he gives to Christabel?

(see the answer keys)

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