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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. How many children do Harding and his wife Mitzi have together?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

2. In Chapter 16, Hal receives a threatening text message from one of Mr. Smith's lackeys that states only which two words?
(a) Take care.
(b) Hurry up.
(c) Ten days.
(d) Five days.

3. One of the reasons Hal believes the letter about Trepassen House to have been a mistake is because her maternal grandmother's first name had been what?
(a) Serenity.
(b) Mabel.
(c) Marion.
(d) Nance.

4. Mr. Treswick tells the family that which character has been awarded 30,000 pounds in the will of Hester Westaway?
(a) Mitzi.
(b) Mrs. Warren.
(c) Freddie.
(d) Ezra.

5. What types of birds attack Mr. Treswick's car as he and Hal approach Trepassen House?
(a) Ravens.
(b) Crows.
(c) Robins.
(d) Magpies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pounds does the client in Chapter 6 throw onto Hal's table before leaving the kiosk?

2. What is NOT an emotion Hal feels as she looks at pictures of the Westaway family's opulent lifestyle?

3. A trip to Trepassen House will require Hal to purchase a train ticket to what location?

4. In what room within Trepassen House does Hal discover and look at a photograph album?

5. In whose honor does Hal say she had gotten a tattoo of a bird?

Short Essay Questions

1. What alarming development happens at the funeral for Hester Westaway?

2. What does the narrator mean with the claim that Hal tells her clients not only what they wanted to hear, but "What they needed to know as well" (24)?

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

4. How did the drastic change just before Hal's 18th birthday transform her life?

5. Describe Hal's job.

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

7. How and why does Abel's reaction to the news about the inheritance differ from his brother Harding's reaction?

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

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

10. For what reason is Hal herself dismayed when the contents of Hester Westaway's will are revealed?

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