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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Merivel mistake for his mother?
(a) A shop owner.
(b) A servant of the King's.
(c) A haberdasher's wife.
(d) A barmaid.

3. How does Merivel celebrate his birthday when Katherine is pregnant?
(a) Merivel and Katherine throw a big party.
(b) Merivel and Katherine celebrate quietly together.
(c) Katherine throws a surprise party for Merivel.
(d) Merivel keeps it a secret and doesn't celebrate.

4. What does Piepold spend his days thinking of?
(a) Ways to harm himself.
(b) Ways to conquer England.
(c) Ways to kill people.
(d) Ways to escape.

5. Who comes to the hospital for a visit and is turned away?
(a) The King.
(b) Celia.
(c) Katherine's mother.
(d) Violet.

6. Why does Merivel want to cure Katherine?
(a) To be with her.
(b) To show that it can be done.
(c) To make up for his past.
(d) For her mother's sake.

7. What does Merivel feel for Katherine?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Love.
(c) Anger.
(d) Pity.

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

9. Where does Merivel's runaway horse end up?
(a) At Bath.
(b) At Whitehall.
(c) At Bidnold.
(d) At the Bathurst estate.

10. Who are the two people Merivel says he has truly loved?
(a) Pearce and the King.
(b) Violet and the King.
(c) Violet and Celia.
(d) Celia and Pearce.

11. What is the straw resting-place for the doll called?
(a) Bethlehem.
(b) The manger.
(c) Home.
(d) The nest.

12. Who is in the house when Merivel emerges from his illness?
(a) The King.
(b) Celia.
(c) No one.
(d) Finn.

13. Who does Merivel hope to save in the emergency?
(a) Finn.
(b) His daughter.
(c) Katherine's mother.
(d) Himself.

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

15. What religion is the staff at Whittlesea Hospital?
(a) Quaker.
(b) Calvinist.
(c) Anglican.
(d) Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ambrose tell Merivel?

2. What game does the King make Merivel play with him when Merivel answers the King's summons?

3. What do the men in the George Fox building make?

4. Who does Merivel see on the river one morning in 1666?

5. Where does Merivel go after he leaves the manor for good?

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