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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Hollingsworth and Coverdale repairing at Blithedale while discussing the community's plans for the future?
(a) A stone fence.
(b) A wind mill.
(c) A bridge.
(d) A wood fence.

2. As the three people searching for Zenobia row out into the river, who comments about how Zenobia will laugh at them the next morning?
(a) Priscilla.
(b) Mr. Foster.
(c) Hollingsworth.
(d) Coverdale.

3. Where do the men lay Zenobia for the women to deal with?
(a) In her bedroom.
(b) On the couch in the living room.
(c) On the floor of the farmhouse.
(d) On the grass outside the main house.

4. What does Zenobia tell Priscilla that she stood in the way of?
(a) Her career.
(b) Her friendhips.
(c) Her traveling.
(d) Her desires.

5. In Section 12, Chapter 24, Coverdale sets out for Blithedale, and he spies on the community from the woods before entering; what does he hear from the woods?
(a) Screaming.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Crying.
(d) Gun shots.

6. What does Moodie reveal to Coverdale that his name was twenty-five years earlier?
(a) Farras.
(b) Fuddleray.
(c) Fowers.
(d) Fauntleroy.

7. Not long after midnight in Section 14, Chapter 27, Coverdale passes beneath Hollingsworth's open window; what does he fling into his room?
(a) A note.
(b) A tuft of grass.
(c) A flower.
(d) A sprig of holly.

8. Zenobia agrees with Priscilla that they are sisters, and although she learned of their relationship recently, she never wished what upon Priscilla?
(a) Love.
(b) Anger.
(c) Harm.
(d) Friendship.

9. In a lyceum hall where he is attending an interview, who does Coverdale see several rows in front of him?
(a) Westervelt.
(b) Hollingsworth.
(c) Zenobia.
(d) Priscilla.

10. In Section 13, Chapter 25, who says that he does not pretend to pass a sentence, but it has been forced upon him?
(a) Coverdale.
(b) Moodie.
(c) Westervelt.
(d) Hollingsworth.

11. After Priscilla is summoned, why does Coverdale realize there is no peril of her communicating to him any of Zenobia's designs?
(a) He realizes she does not influence any events.
(b) He realizes she is clueless.
(c) He realizes that she does not care.
(d) He realizes that she is not really close to Zenobia.

12. What does Hollingsworth seem to have no regret for overthrowing in Section 8, Chapter 15?
(a) His love of Zenobia for Priscilla.
(b) His love of Priscilla for Zenobia.
(c) Overthrowing the fair system of their new life because it does not suit him.
(d) His own family.

13. From his hotel window in town, what is Coverdale watching creep along the office rooftops that bewitches him?
(a) A dove.
(b) A pigeon.
(c) A rat.
(d) A cat.

14. In Section 14, Chapter 27, what does Coverdale share with Hollingsworth that he suspects Zenobia has done?
(a) Fled the country.
(b) Committed adultery.
(c) Committed suicide.
(d) Harmed someone else.

15. What message does Zenobia tell Coverdale to take to Hollingsworth, in Section 13, Chapter 26?
(a) That he is a wretch with a heart of ice.
(b) That he will forever torment her.
(c) That she will always love him.
(d) That he has murdered her and she will haunt him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hollingsworth wound Zenobia in Section 14, Chapter 27?

2. After Priscilla and Hollingsworth leave in Section 13, Chapter 26, what does Coverdale tell Zenobia that he thinks Hollingsworth is?

3. In Section 9, Chapter 18, what torments Coverdale at night in his hotel room?

4. What does Zenobia do after Hollingsworth and Priscilla walk off together in Section 13, Chapter 25?

5. After Coverdale is looked upon scornfully by one of the three people staying at the boardinghouse, who disappears from the window of the boudoir?

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