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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. Hal does NOT name which of the following clients' problems when she considers the ways she is able to help them?
(a) Domestic violence.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Unemployment.

2. Who follows Hal outside after breakfast in Chapter 18 and offers to show her the hedge maze?
(a) Freddie.
(b) Harding.
(c) Abel.
(d) Mitzi.

3. What is Hal's legal first name?
(a) Helen.
(b) Hermione.
(c) Harriet.
(d) Halpern.

4. At the end of Chapter 2, Hal feels which emotion that "she hadn't dared to feel in many years" (12)?
(a) Hope.
(b) Envy.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Fear.

5. Mrs. Warren tells Hal that she must stay in a bedroom in what part of Trepassen House?
(a) The basement.
(b) The barn.
(c) The boathouse.
(d) The attic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gives Hal a ride to the noon appointment at Mr. Treswick's office in Chapter 20?

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

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

4. As Hal prepares to meet the Westaway family at Trepassen House, she feels like what kind of athlete?

5. What does Hal do when she hears that Harriet Westaway has been awarded the remainder of Hester Westaway's estate?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the theme of trust enter the narrative within the diary entry featured at the end of Chapter 10?

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

6. Which elements of Hal's accommodations within Trepassen House does Hal find creepy?

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

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

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

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

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