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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 was Jemmy Button treated by his native land when he returned?
(a) He was shunned
(b) He was an object of curiosity.
(c) He was treated the exact same as he was before he left.
(d) He was embraced.

2. When the girls are spending the evening in Rose's laboratory what is the one thing they wish for?
(a) To be able to speak with their mother.
(b) To have personal success, academically and personally.
(c) To remain best friends forever.
(d) For their father to accept them for who they are.

3. What type of relationship does Grant have with Susanna?
(a) They are friends.
(b) They are work partners.
(c) They are lovers.
(d) They are siblings.

4. What war is America embroiled in when Alec Carrière returns to the U.S.?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) The First World War.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) The Second World War.

5. Whose spirit do the girls conjure up in their first seance?
(a) Their mother's.
(b) Their grandfather's.
(c) Their father's.
(d) Their mother's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What beverage are the two Marburg sisters, Rose and Bianca, named after?

2. Who arranges Alec Carrière's medical care while he is ill?

3. How does Dr. Grant react when he first sees the sick patients aboard the ships at Grosse Isle?

4. In which country does Dr. Lauchlin Grant live?

5. How does Alec Carrière's pet die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who started the winery in "The Marburg Sisters" and who runs it at the time of the story's setting?

2. How do the Marburg sisters cope with their father's death?

3. Why is Carrière jealous of Wallace?

4. What does Zaga do with Joel's money after his death?

5. Where did Alec Carrière grow up, and what was his ambition in life?

6. What becomes of Carrière's scientific breakthrough, and how does this end result compare to his hopes?

7. What school subject do the Marburg sisters excel in, and how does this shape their adulthood?

8. Why did Joel want to marry Zaga and how does he treat his new wife?

9. What happened to Jemmy Button a year after arriving in England?

10. In the opening pages of "Soroche" what does the reader learn about Zaga's character?

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