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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 Melanie suggest to Alexandra?
(a) Alexandra take some time to decide which man she wants.
(b) Alexandra divorce Jordan.
(c) Alexandra work to make Jordan fall in love with her again.
(d) Alexandra keep the marriage to Anthony and have the one to Jordan annulled.

2. How does the poisoning affect Jordan?
(a) He is irate.
(b) It saddens him.
(c) He is determined to catch the killer.
(d) It makes him act aloof wardAlexandra.

3. What does Alexandra do when Jordan asks if she wants him?
(a) Laughs.
(b) Cries.
(c) Says she is not sure.
(d) Vows over and over that she does.

4. What does Lord Carstairs tell Jordan?
(a) That Alexandra slept with numerous men while Jordan was supposedly dead.
(b) What Alexandra did while Jordan was supposedly dead.
(c) That Jordan should be kind to Alexandra as she grieved him terribly.
(d) That Jordan should divorce Alexandra.

5. What is Alexandra endangering?
(a) Her likelihood for a good second marriage.
(b) Her heart.
(c) The Townsends' good name.
(d) Herself and her reputation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jordan want to tell Alexandra but does not do so?

2. Where is Jordan at the time of the ball?

3. About what does Alexandra warn Melanie?

4. Why does Jordan dismiss his scribe and cancel his appointments?

5. What does Jordan do on the picnic?

Short Essay Questions

1. What increases Fawkes' belief that Alexandra and Anthony are plotting to kill Jordan?

2. Why does Jordan postpone his official duties for the day?

3. How is Anthony and Alexandra's marriage halted just before the pronouncement of husband and wife?

4. Why is Alexandra's status as a young, desirable widow worrisome to the Dowager Duchess?

5. What does everyone not know about Jordan at the time of Alexandra's coming out ball?

6. What gossip does the Dowager Duchess start?

7. What happens as Jordan is talking with Lord Camden and what does Jordan do as a result?

8. What does Alexandra do that upsets Jordan the next morning and what does he order her to do?

9. What do Alexandra and Jordan do that helps them relax with each other?

10. Describe the scene when Bertie confesses and the aftermath.

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