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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 Maud find the box in Christabel's room?
(a) From a photograph in an old book.
(b) From an entry in a diary.
(c) From a passage in a letter.
(d) From a clue in a poem.

2. What is Roland's reaction to Val telling him that a man wants to take her away to Newmarket?
(a) He is relieved that she's leaving.
(b) He says she is making it up.
(c) He is jealous and angry.
(d) He says it may do her good.

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

4. What hotel is Cropper staying at?
(a) Ritz Hotel.
(b) Haymarket Hotel.
(c) Brown's Hotel.
(d) Barrett's Hotel.

5. How did Ellen Ash feel about Christabel?
(a) She was a fair poet, but with no outstanding talent.
(b) She was a selfish woman who did not understand family.
(c) She was a pompous woman who wrote bad poetry.
(d) She was a great poet who would not be recognized.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the box Maud finds?

2. Who came to see Ellen while her husband was away?

3. Why does Lady Joan invite Maud and Roland to stay overnight at Seal Court?

4. Who do Joan and George Bailey invite to read the letters between Ash and Christabel?

5. What is Maud's suggestion for herself and Roland to read the letters?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the relationship between Blackadder and Cropper.

3. What does Sir George plan to do at the end of the chapter?

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

5. What is Roland researching at the library?

6. What does Roland like about the library?

7. What does the child ask the apparitions that come to him on his journey?

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

9. What is Maud's dilemma about Leonora?

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

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