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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is Melusine's hair?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Gold.

2. What does the knight hear coming from a waterfall?
(a) Buzzing.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Shouting.
(d) Music.

3. 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 at the London Library.
(d) Blackadder says Roland is in France.

4. Who does Roland give Ash's draft letters to?
(a) Blackadder.
(b) Euan.
(c) Maud.
(d) Val.

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

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

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

8. What does Blackadder discover Ash asked Christabel at a séance?
(a) Where the child is.
(b) What the child is called.
(c) Whether there is a child.
(d) How she could hide the child.

9. How do Leonora and Cropper make contact in France?
(a) Leonora breaks into Cropper's room.
(b) Leonora runs into Cropper's car.
(c) Leonora phones Cropper after telling Blackadder to avoid him.
(d) Leonora sends a message to Cropper through the bellboy.

10. What does Christabel ask for when she first comes to Sabine's home?
(a) Shelter.
(b) Food.
(c) Sanctuary.
(d) Forgiveness.

11. What is Sir George's attitude toward Maud after he sees his lawyer?
(a) Anger.
(b) Thankfulness.
(c) Awe.
(d) Sadness.

12. Who is the letter from that Leonora shows Maud?
(a) Cropper.
(b) Sir George Bailey.
(c) Blackadder.
(d) Dr. LeMinier.

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

14. Who first reads Christabel's letter found in Ash's grave?
(a) Cropper.
(b) Maud.
(c) Roland.
(d) Blackadder.

15. Who does Val meet at the horse races?
(a) Blackadder.
(b) Cropper.
(c) Leonore.
(d) Sir George's lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Val go to the horse race?

2. What poem is James Blackadder annotating at the beginning of Chapter 17?

3. Whose number does Val give to Fergus?

4. What does Cropper entice Sir George by offering?

5. Where did Christabel have her baby?

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