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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Roland feel about the library?
(a) He hates it.
(b) He is bored by it.
(c) He is afraid of it.
(d) He loves it.

2. How old is Roland?
(a) Thirty-eight.
(b) Twenty-nine.
(c) Thirty-five.
(d) Twenty-one.

3. What does Cropper think about writing while he drives away from Daisy Wapshott's house?
(a) A book about Ash's poetry.
(b) A book of his own poetry.
(c) His autobiography.
(d) A popular novel about Ash's life.

4. What is in the box Maud finds?
(a) Poems.
(b) Letters.
(c) A diary.
(d) Drawings.

5. Who does Val come home with?
(a) A man in a red Porsche.
(b) A wealthy-looking woman.
(c) A man dressed in artsy clothes with a beard.
(d) A woman friend from work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose diary does Roland read at the Women's Resource Center?

2. How many letters does Roland find in the book?

3. When does Val cook complex meals?

4. What hotel is Cropper staying at?

5. What advice does the woman give the child at the beginning of the journey?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Roland like about the library?

2. How does Roland feel at the prospect of reading Christabel and Ash's letters?

3. How does Roland react to Maud's idea of how to go about reading the letters?

4. Who are Ask and Embla?

5. What does Roland read at the end of the chapter?

6. What does Ash ask for, in his letters to the unknown woman?

7. What is Maud's dilemma about Leonora?

8. How do Christabel and Ash feel about meeting secretly?

9. What are Maud and Roland concerned might happen to their find in Christabel's room?

10. How do the three apparitions describe themselves to the child?

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