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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. In what position is octogenarian Mrs. Warren employed within Trepassen House?
(a) Cook.
(b) Housekeeper.
(c) Accountant.
(d) Interior designer.

2. What kind of food is Hal carrying home to her flat in Brighton in Chapter 1?
(a) Beef stew.
(b) Bangers and mash.
(c) Fish and chips.
(d) Blood sausage.

3. The epigraph included at the start of the novel The Death of Mrs. Westaway features what element in association with the number seven?
(a) Silver.
(b) Gold.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) A secret.

4. Which two of Hester Westaway's children were born as twins?
(a) Maggie and Abel.
(b) Maud and Harding.
(c) Maggie and Ezra.
(d) Maud and Ezra.

5. How many people were held responsible for the death of Hal's mother?
(a) 1.
(b) 0.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what location does Hal put her tarot cards and the picture Abel had given her before going downstairs to answer Harding's summons in Chapter 19?

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

3. In Chapter 5, Hal visits Reg's booth in order to purchase what item?

4. To what creatures does the narrator compare the black sedans that bring the Westaway family to Trepassen from the funeral?

5. Hal's mother mentioned that Hal's father had sported what kind of accent?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Hal's appearance.

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

5. Name one main theme introduced by the novel's epigraph in The Death of Mrs. Westaway.

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

7. What meaningful item does Hal keep on her mantelpiece and what does the object symbolize?

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

9. In what way does Ware join together the themes of free will and responsibility?

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

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