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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. Where do Maud, Roland, Euan, Val, and Toby decide the letters should go?
(a) To Blackadder.
(b) To the British Museum.
(c) To the London Library.
(d) To Cropper.

2. What does the medium gain from giving séances?
(a) Pride.
(b) Food.
(c) Money.
(d) Forgiveness.

3. When did Ellen first know about Christabel?
(a) After Ash's death.
(b) When Ash first told her, right after the affair.
(c) When Ash finally told her, years after the affair.
(d) Long before Ash told her.

4. What does Val say that she's not very good at?
(a) Being happy.
(b) Making decisions.
(c) Knowing what she wants.
(d) Thinking of others.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Maud and Roland do when they find other scholars have followed the trail to France?

2. What has happened to Roland's landlady's cats?

3. How does the apprentice feel about lying?

4. What does Ellen have from Christabel?

5. Where do the characters gather to try to decide what to do about the letters and the proposed exhumation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ash show Christabel that she is not a possession?

2. What similarities are there between Christabel and Ash's trip and Roland and Maud's trip?

3. What does Maud tell Roland about other people's perceptions of what the two are doing?

4. What are Cropper's relationships with the Ash family like?

5. What does Beatrice Nest overhear?

6. What does Roland think about Blackadder's letter?

7. What does the knight tell Melusine when he first sees her?

8. How does Blackadder feel about his work?

9. How does Ellen Ash feel about Christabel?

10. What is the result of the knight drinking the cup offered to him by Melusine?

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