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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Merivel find a formula for a supposed cure for the plague?
(a) In a book in Katherine's mother's house.
(b) In one of his father's books.
(c) In a book in the King's library.
(d) In one of Pearce's books.

2. What is unusual about Merivel's sexual encounter with Katherine?
(a) Katherine is perfectly still.
(b) They roleplay that they're old.
(c) Merivel has difficulty performing.
(d) It has religious overtones.

3. How does Merivel's old friend greet him?
(a) Sadly.
(b) Unfeelingly.
(c) Angrily.
(d) Joyfully.

4. What does Ambrose tell Merivel?
(a) That he must begin working at manual labor in the grounds.
(b) That he must stop practicing medicine.
(c) That he must leave Whittlesea.
(d) That he must commit to become a Quaker.

5. Who does Merivel see on the river one morning in 1666?
(a) The King.
(b) Celia.
(c) Finn.
(d) Violet.

6. What does Merivel do most of the day while he is ill?
(a) Writes.
(b) Reads.
(c) Sleeps.
(d) Draws.

7. What news comes to Merivel and the King while they are talking?
(a) An outbreak of the plague has occurred.
(b) The river has flooded.
(c) A fire is raging through London.
(d) London Bridge has fallen.

8. What is written on the gate?
(a) A note to Ambrose.
(b) A children's rhyme.
(c) A verse from the Bible.
(d) A note to Merivel.

9. Who helps Merivel make a rag doll for Katherine?
(a) Pearce.
(b) Hannah.
(c) Eleanor.
(d) Ambrose.

10. What natural alternative treatments does Merivel think of for extracting fluids?
(a) Sweating and pissing.
(b) Vomitting and weeping.
(c) Sweating and weeping.
(d) Pissing and vomiting.

11. What has happened to Katherine?
(a) She has tried to kill herself a second time.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is ill with the plague.
(d) She is hallucinating.

12. Who does Merivel go to after leaving the manor for good?
(a) Celia.
(b) Rosie.
(c) Violet.
(d) Nell.

13. How does the King respond to Merivel's letter, asking to visit?
(a) The King invites him to a large ball.
(b) The King invites him to Sunday dinner.
(c) The King invites him to a luncheon.
(d) The King does not respond.

14. What medical practice does Merivel perform regularly at the hospital?
(a) Bloodletting.
(b) Leeching.
(c) Lobotomies.
(d) Maggot therapy.

15. What does Merivel buy in preparation for seeing the King?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A gift of gems for the king.
(c) New clothes, a wig, and shoes.
(d) A portrait from Finn.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the funeral, what does Merivel express toward Pearce?

2. What does Merivel feel for Katherine?

3. How does Merivel feel about Katherine?

4. Who has purchased Merivel's former home, Bidnold Manor?

5. Where do the others tell Edmund he can find God?

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