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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. Who summons Priscilla to see Coverdale at the boardinghouse?
(a) Hollingsworth.
(b) Moodie.
(c) Zenobia.
(d) Westervelt.

2. After Coverdale fails at trying to meet up with Zenobia and Priscilla in town, what does he long for?
(a) A castastrophe.
(b) A storm to bring them together.
(c) A chance meeting.
(d) To be back at Blithedale.

3. Zenobia asks Hollingsworth if he loves Priscilla and he admits that he does; what does Zenobia say and do in return?
(a) Zenobia begins to cry and runs away.
(b) Zenobia begins hitting him and yelling at him for not loving her.
(c) Zenobia appeals to God to judge which of them has most morally offended him and bids Hollingsworth farewell.
(d) Zenobia begs for him to reconsider loving her and clings to him.

4. Coverdale almost gives up in finding Moodie until he sees him behind a screen; what does he invite him to?
(a) Breakfast and coffee.
(b) Dinner and wine.
(c) Lunch and wine.
(d) Lunch and beer.

5. During the interview that Coverdale is attending, who jumps to the platform after the lady rises as a mysterious tremor shakes her veil?
(a) Hollingsworth.
(b) Coverdale.
(c) Westervelt.
(d) Moodie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Twenty-five years earlier, why did Moodie flee to the New England metropolis?

2. At the interview that Coverdale is attending, who appears onstage in Oriental robes?

3. How does Moodie describe his second daughter when she was a child?

4. During the interview at the lyceum hall, who does Coverdale ask where Priscilla is, and receives a glare in response from this person?

5. In a lyceum hall where he sees someone he knows several rows in front of him, who does Coverdale attend an interview of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is ironic about Coverdale encountering Hollingsworth at a village hall during an interview with the Veiled Lady?

3. What gets Moodie to reveal his past to Coverdale?

4. Why does Hollingsworth and Coverdale's friendship end?

5. Why did Moodie change his name twenty-five years ago?

6. How does Zenobia demonstrate her love and loyalty for Hollingsworth?

7. How does Zenobia's death parallel with many village maidens who have also been wronged by their first love?

8. What questions does Zenobia ask Hollingsworth at Eliot's Pulpit in Section 13, Chapter 25?

9. What vision of Coverdale's does Hollingsworth mock?

10. What scheme does Hollingsworth ask Coverdale to join him in?

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