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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 the Fairy tell Mark to do about Mr. Steele's negativity?
(a) Apologize to him .
(b) Report him to Mr. Frost.
(c) Avoid eye contact.
(d) Ignore him.

2. What does N.I.C.E. stand for?
(a) National Insurance Company for Ethics.
(b) Natural Instincts Considered Essential.
(c) National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments.
(d) Neutral Institute of Coincidental Experiments.

3. How does Mr. Wither get Mark to stay with the N.I.C.E.?
(a) He threatens Mark.
(b) He makes Mark feel like part of a group.
(c) He offers to raise Mark's wages.
(d) He asks Mark kindly for a favor.

4. How does Cosser differ from Mark in his opinion of the countryside?
(a) Cosser is afraid of the power of nature.
(b) Cosser finds no beauty in the country.
(c) Mark is afraid of the power of nature.
(d) Mark finds no beauty in the country.

5. What does Filostrato tell Mark that the real purpose of the N.I.C.E. is while they are chatting in Filostrato's room?
(a) To give eternal life to the human brain.
(b) To rid the world of evil-minded beings.
(c) To rid the world of all organic matter.
(d) To prepare for an inter-gallactic war.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Mr. Dimble suspicious of N.I.C.E. buying the wood?

2. What does Mark use as a reason to return to Edgestow from Belbury?

3. What happens to the man in Jane's dream who was in a car coming home in the dark?

4. What is in the center of Bragdon Wood?

5. Who were the first people to the scene of Mr. Hingest's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the N.I.C.E. so interested in buying Bragdon Wood?

2. What was the fate of the only man to ever try and leave the N.I.C.E. and who was that man?

3. What does Jane see Mr. Frost doing in her recurring dream about him?

4. What does Jane learn from her short conversation with Mr. Curry that is very shocking to her?

5. Why is Mr. Steele so hostile towards Mark when they are first introduced to each other at Belbury?

6. What does the Fairy have Mark do as his first project at Belbury--much to his chagrin?

7. What is Cosser doing in the countryside when Mark accompanies him to help?

8. What does Jane notice about the weather as she heads to St. Anne's after seeing Mr. Frost?

9. What does the Fairy tell Mark repeatedly to not bother Mr. Wither about?

10. Why is Mr. Wither so upset with the Fairy for trying to take Jane by force on the night of the riot?

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