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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. What does Christabel compare herself to?
(a) An egg.
(b) A tree.
(c) A doll.
(d) A box.

2. How old is Swammerdam in the poem?
(a) In his 40s and close to his death.
(b) In his 20s and just beginning his adulthood.
(c) In his teens and anticipating the future.
(d) In his 80s but hanging on to life.

3. Which apparition does the child follow?
(a) The bright blue apparition.
(b) The pale apparition.
(c) The silver apparition.
(d) The golden apparition.

4. What relation does Maud say she has to Christabel?
(a) Maud is her great-great-great niece.
(b) Maud is her cousin's granddaughter.
(c) Maud is no relation.
(d) Maud is her third cousin once removed.

5. What do people think of Swammerdam's discoveries?
(a) People think Swammerdam's discoveries are interesting but unimportant.
(b) People think Swammerdam is insane.
(c) People think Swammerdam's discoveries are interesting but too difficult to understand.
(d) People think Swammerdam is a genius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the story told in Chapter 9?

2. What is Maud's home like?

3. What does Roland accidentally see?

4. What is Roland's job?

5. What was the purpose of Ash's trip, which Roland and Maud suspect Christabel accompanied him on?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where did Maud get the pin that she is wearing in her turban?

4. How does Fergus describe Maud?

5. What is Roland researching at the library?

6. What do Roland and Maud do on their day trip?

7. How does Cropper feel about Blackadder?

8. What, in her own life, does Val compare Roland's work to?

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

10. In her diary, how does Ellen describe the visit she gets while Ash is away?

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