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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. How long is Merivel with his bride before being interrupted on his wedding night?
(a) An hour or two.
(b) A very short time.
(c) Four hours.
(d) Nearly all night.

2. What did Finn buy for his interview with the King?
(a) A set of paints and brushes.
(b) A gift of a gold clock.
(c) A fine pheasant dinner.
(d) Expensive new clothes.

3. What does Merivel hear Celia doing the night he returns?
(a) Reciting poetry.
(b) Ringing bells.
(c) Singing.
(d) Playing a harpsichord.

4. How is the person in the story cured?
(a) By expelling a large worm in her excrement.
(b) By drinking a glass of poison.
(c) By drowning and being resuscitated.
(d) By vomiting up a sac of eggs.

5. How do Merivel's parents die?
(a) They fall off a cliff.
(b) They die in a fire.
(c) They are murdered.
(d) They are killed in a storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bad aftereffect does Merivel wake with the next morning?

2. Who interrupts Merivel's wedding night?

3. What does Merivel report that the thing on Nell's neck is?

4. What does Merivel perform an autopsy on as a boy?

5. In what does Celia arrive at the mansion?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Pearce tells Merivel about the present Finn brings.

2. Describe what Finn tells Merivel about the present Finn brings.

3. How does Merivel get into Celia's room?

4. What does Merivel fantasize about while he's having sex with Violet?

5. What is wrong with Lady Bathurst's husband?

6. How does Merivel's message to Celia differ from what the King told him to say?

7. What does Merivel do after he leaves Celia on their wedding night?

8. What is Merivel's job at the palace?

9. How does Merivel convince Lady Bathurst that she has nothing to worry about regarding Celia?

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

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