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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 does Merivel study in college?
(a) Art.
(b) Literature.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Bookkeeping.

2. What does Merivel do while he's hiding in his room?
(a) He tries to write a suicide letter.
(b) He plans how to discredit Celia.
(c) He tries to write an apology to Celia.
(d) He plans how to kill the King.

3. Who does Merivel learn traveled this way before?
(a) Lady Bathurst.
(b) The King.
(c) Pearce.
(d) The Queen.

4. Who interrupts Merivel's wedding night?
(a) The Queen.
(b) Barbara.
(c) Celia's father.
(d) The King.

5. Who is the story Pearce tells Merivel about?
(a) A king's servant.
(b) A farmer.
(c) A traveling medicine salesperson.
(d) A patient in a mental hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is with Merivel when Celia arrives?

2. What does Finn bring Merivel as a first payment for using his influence?

3. What piece of attire does Merivel find sweaty and itchy?

4. What has happened to Merivel's dog while he was away?

5. What is draped over Meg in Merivel's pictures?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Merivel think about when he visits Kaw?

2. Why has Celia come to the mansion?

3. Who has Celia invited to the house, and why?

4. Explain the metaphor in the story that Pearce tells Merivel.

5. How does Celia act during her meetings with Merivel before the wedding?

6. Why can't Merivel do what Finn asks of him?

7. What is Merivel's response to the King summoning him with a letter?

8. What does the King tell Merivel in his dream?

9. What does Merivel think about his promise as an artist before he begins trying to paint?

10. What does Merivel tell the King after drinking the tampered wine?

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