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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 is the subject of the letter Anne leaves behind when she dies?
(a) Anne denounces the telepathics, including herself.
(b) Anne admits to murdering her husband.
(c) Anne outlines her plan to run away.
(d) Anne describes being attacked by Fringes people.

2. According to old Jacob, what is the cause of the bad season?
(a) A bad winter.
(b) Winds blowing up from the south.
(c) People memorizing Nicholson’s Repentances.
(d) Slackness regarding Purity standards.

3. Why does Petra come to David’s room in the middle of the night?
(a) To tell him the inspector wants to see him.
(b) To tell him she has had a bad dream.
(c) To tell him their mother has given birth to another baby.
(d) To tell him Sally and Katherine have been taken.

4. Rosalind informs David that who helped her prepare to flee?
(a) Old Jacob.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Axel.
(d) Her father.

5. After David, Petra, and Rosalind flee, Michael informs David that he plans to join a search party and report the group is headed in which direction?
(a) Northwest.
(b) Southeast.
(c) Northeast.
(d) Southwest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event ends Anne’s marriage?

2. What does Axel think about Anne’s impeding marriage?

3. A newborn is not formally announced until who approves the baby?

4. When Rachel finally sees Anne, what does she find?

5. David learns Petra can communicate with whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Harriet, and why does she arrive at the Strorm home? What happens as a result of her visit?

2. What does Petra say the people of Sealand think about those who could make thought-shapes?

3. How did the relationship between Rosalind and David grow? What stood in their way?

4. What does the group resolve must be done after being discovered by Jerome Skinner?

5. How do David's parents react to the reason for Harriet's visit? What happens to Harriet as a result?

6. Why is Anne’s marriage a problem for David and the other telepathics?

7. What does David discover about Petra’s ability?

8. After Harriet's visit, what does David pray for at night? Why?

9. What is Axel’s opinion on what caused the bad season?

10. What happens to Anne after she marries? How does her marriage to Alan end?

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