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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Christabel choose to raise her child?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Ash's cousin.
(c) Blanche's estranged sister.
(d) Her sister, Sophia.

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

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

4. Who does Christabel express that she wants to have her letters?
(a) Ash's descendants.
(b) Joan Bailey's great-great-great grandmother.
(c) Blanche's descendants.
(d) Maud's great-great-great grandmother.

5. Whose number does Val give to Fergus?
(a) Cropper's.
(b) Sir George's.
(c) Leonora's.
(d) Maud's.

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

7. 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 are still in the landlady's apartment.
(d) They have been taken away by animal control.

8. What time do Cropper and Hildebrand leave for the cemetery?
(a) Ten at night.
(b) One in the morning.
(c) Noon.
(d) Six in the morning.

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

10. What does Ellen do with the box?
(a) She buries it in the garden.
(b) She keeps it in a safe.
(c) She keeps it under her pillow.
(d) She buries it with Randolf.

11. Who calls Roland to warn him about Blackadder?
(a) Paola.
(b) Val.
(c) Maud.
(d) Fergus.

12. What TV program does Blackadder appear on?
(a) The World Today.
(b) Historical Thoughts.
(c) Events in Depth.
(d) Exploring Our World.

13. What does Cropper ask for during his lecture?
(a) He asks that the letters between Christabel and Ash be authenticated.
(b) He asks that the letters between Christabel and Ash be turned over to a museum for safe keeping.
(c) He asks that the letters between Christabel and Ash be turned over to him.
(d) He asks that the letters between Christabel and Ash be made public.

14. With whom does Val go to the horse race?
(a) Leonore.
(b) Paola.
(c) Euan.
(d) Fergus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Maud and Roland see walking together in France?

2. What happens as Cropper and Hildebrand start to dig?

3. Who has the knight in THE FAIRY MELUSINE killed?

4. What does Randolf Ash do on the shore during the day?

5. What does Roland discover happened to his landlady?

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