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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year is Iris writing her memoir?
(a) 2002.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1992.
(d) 2000.

2. One of the newspaper articles in chapter 4 reports a labor strike. Where did this strike occur?
(a) Chase Industries.
(b) Royal Classic Knitwear.
(c) In front of The Weary Soldier.
(d) The Port Ticonderoga town square.

3. What does Iris see hanging from the tree outside her former home?
(a) A cat.
(b) Toilet paper.
(c) A man's legs.
(d) Pantyhose.

4. How does Iris and Laura's mother die?
(a) An unknown form of cancer, most likely uterine.
(b) Drowns.
(c) Catches a mysterious ailment.
(d) Complications of childbirth.

5. Where does Iris keep Laura's notebooks?
(a) A coffee can.
(b) A steamer trunk.
(c) A sealed jar.
(d) A drawer.

6. In chapter 5, why does Laura think Iris is dying?
(a) Iris is coughing a lot.
(b) Iris becomes pregnant and is vomiting a lot.
(c) She sees blood on the sheets when Iris gets her period.
(d) Iris looks weak and pale, like their mother before she died.

7. Which character is reputed to have authored 'The Blind Assassin'?
(a) Richard Griffen.
(b) Reenie Hincks.
(c) Laura Chase.
(d) Iris Chase Griffen.

8. What was the theme of the charity ball Winifred organized according to the newspaper article?
(a) Tamurlane in Samarkand.
(b) Masquerade.
(c) Xanadu.
(d) Commedia dell'artre.

9. Whom does Iris run into when she is out shopping soon after marrying Richard?
(a) Reenie Hincks.
(b) Alex Thomas.
(c) Myra Sturgess.
(d) Winifred Griffen Prior.

10. Which character was said to "always be there" for the Chase sisters?
(a) Their father.
(b) Myra.
(c) Reenie.
(d) Their mother.

11. How does Aimee Griffen die?
(a) She falls.
(b) She drives off a bridge.
(c) She is shot.
(d) She overdoses.

12. Where is Laura found after going missing for a week, according to the newspaper article?
(a) Sunnyside Beach Amusement Park.
(b) With Alex Thomas in the park.
(c) The attic of Avilion.
(d) A summer residence in Muskoka.

13. What is the name of the Chase family's house?
(a) Camelot.
(b) Avilion.
(c) Sweet Home.
(d) Valhalla.

14. Who drives Iris to Montreal to see the lawyer?
(a) Sabrina.
(b) Myra.
(c) Winifred.
(d) Walter.

15. For what is the Chase family house named?
(a) An island found in Tennyson's writing.
(b) A city in the Bible.
(c) A castle found in T.H. White's writing.
(d) A manor found in Frances Hodgson Burnett's writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does the elderly Iris dream at the end of chapter 7?

2. Why do the people invading Sakiel-Norn want to invade the city?

3. What is the name of the restaurant where Iris had previously spied on Sabrina and a group of her friends?

4. What is the name of the assassin sent to kill the king?

5. What are the aristocrats called in the man's story?

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