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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 is Roland's job?
(a) Part-time research assistant.
(b) Full-time professor.
(c) Unemployed student.
(d) Library assistant.

2. Who does Roland live with?
(a) His girlfriend.
(b) A group of graduate students.
(c) No one.
(d) His parents.

3. 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 80s but hanging on to life.
(d) In his teens and anticipating the future.

4. Whose diary does Roland read at the Women's Resource Center?
(a) Blanche Glover's.
(b) Maud Bailey's.
(c) Christabel LaMotte's.
(d) Sir George Bailey's.

5. Where is the book that Roland looks at usually kept?
(a) On display in a glass box.
(b) In the basement stacks.
(c) In a long-term storage facility.
(d) In a locked safe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Roland think he and Maud will do after they go upstairs?

2. What interesting references does Roland find in the diary?

3. What does Christabel compare herself to?

4. How does Ash address the recipient of the letters?

5. Which apparition does the child follow?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the weather like on Roland and Maud's day trip away from Ash and Christabel?

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

4. How does Swammerdam's family treat him?

5. Describe the relationship between Blackadder and Cropper.

6. How does Cropper feel about Blackadder?

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

8. How does Roland compare Maud to Christabel?

9. What is Roland's initial reaction to the letters?

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

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