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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. Which character uses their medical training to examine Hal in Chapter 15?
(a) Edward.
(b) Abel.
(c) Mitzi.
(d) Harding.

2. What liquid splashes onto Hal's face when the man with the lisp destroys her property?
(a) Milk.
(b) Oil.
(c) Tea.
(d) Treacle.

3. Which character shakes Hal's hand upon meeting her in Chapter 12?
(a) Harding.
(b) Freddie.
(c) Ezra.
(d) Abel.

4. Hal often insists to her clients that the tarot cards are not what metaphorical object?
(a) A death warrant.
(b) A prison cell.
(c) A signal.
(d) A free pass.

5. What is NOT an emotion Hal feels as she looks at pictures of the Westaway family's opulent lifestyle?
(a) Nerves.
(b) Envy.
(c) Excitement.
(d) Disgust.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were held responsible for the death of Hal's mother?

2. How many children do Harding and his wife Mitzi have together?

3. How old was Hal when her mother dashed her hopes of ever learning the identity of her father?

4. How many teenage children do Harding and his wife Mitzi have together?

5. In Chapter 12, when Hal decides that she does not feel like an athlete after all, she decides that she instead "feels like a grandmaster before a" (90) what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss an instance when Ware uses personification to suggest the qualities of Trepassen House.

2. For what occasion must the Westaway family travel to Penzance together and how do they get there?

3. What two metaphors having to do with games and sports does Hal conjure up when thinking about her plan to deceive the Westaway family?

4. What severe mistake does Hal nearly make when talking to Freddie, Harding's 12-year-old son, for the first time?

5. What drastic change in Hal's life occurred just before her 18th birthday?

6. Who is Mrs. Warren?

7. How does the reader come to find out that Maud and the writer of the diary had been cousins?

8. What distinction does Hal make between two different types of her clientele?

9. What are the contents of Hester Westaway's will?

10. Discuss an instance when Ware uses a simile to indicate a violent emotional reaction.

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