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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What propaganda is used to promote the changing of London housing?
(a) There has been an influx of disease that is killing many.
(b) Women have to work long hours without breaks.
(c) A baby was supposedly autopsied in its own home because there was no room at the morgue.
(d) Poverty is making people do things they should not be doing.

2. Who does Spencer run into out on his walk about Colchester?
(a) The cripple, Thomas Taylor.
(b) Cora.
(c) The Ambroses.
(d) Martha.

3. What is World's End?
(a) Cracknell's house.
(b) A hotel in Aldwinter.
(c) The neighboring town to Aldwinter.
(d) The name of a town.

4. Why is Luke Garrett considered dangerous?
(a) Garrett takes chances that other doctors would not.
(b) Luke Garrett is not a properly trained doctor.
(c) Luke is unreliable as a surgeon.
(d) Garrett is not a good surgeon but still practiced.

5. According to Thomas Taylor, the begger, how did he loose his legs?
(a) Thomas lost his legs during the war.
(b) Thomas said he lost his legs when they were swallowed up by the earthquake.
(c) Thomas Taylor said he lost his legs when the house collapsed during the earthquake.
(d) Taylor claims he lost his legs during a childhood illness.

6. What was Cora looking to find along the Essex shoreline?
(a) A new species.
(b) A few fossils.
(c) A sea dragon skeleton.
(d) The Essex Serpent.

7. What does Cora do as the man she helps rescue the sheep just walks away?
(a) Cora chides him for not thanking her for her help.
(b) Cora laughs at the way he looks like a hunchback.
(c) Cora simply walks away because it is getting dark and she does not know which way she is going.
(d) Cora helps stitch up the man's face where the sheep kicked him.

8. Why does Luke insist Cora has sent him a Valentine?
(a) Cora writes a letter to Luke on February 14th.
(b) Cora writes to Luke begging him to come to Colchester.
(c) Cora tells Luke she does not like to do without him.
(d) Luke receives the letter on Valentine's Day.

9. What does Francis believe has happened to him during his visit to Colchester?
(a) He believes he has become an adult.
(b) Francis believes he is getting better.
(c) He believes his mother has stopped coddling him.
(d) Francis believes he is now dying.

10. What does Stella show Cora in the church?
(a) A stain-glassed window depicting the Essex Serpent.
(b) The serpent carved on one of the church pews.
(c) The Restoration pew.
(d) The altar where the Essex Serpent was carved.

11. Why is Joanna secretly excited that her dad cut his cheek?
(a) Because she does not like her father and enjoys seeing him suffer.
(b) Because she wants to be a surgeon and give her father a stitch.
(c) Because he got hurt while rescuing an animal.
(d) Because she has a new recipe for healing that she wants to try out.

12. To whom are the Ambroses going to introduce Cora?
(a) The Ransomes.
(b) The Garretts.
(c) The Spencers.
(d) The Taylors.

13. How does William and his family end up in Aldwinter?
(a) William did not make it as an engineer.
(b) William did not want to be in Parliament.
(c) William wanted purpose in his life, not achievement.
(d) William met and fell in love with Stella while in Aldwinter.

14. Cora and Martha quite unexpectedly meet their friends in the streets of Colchester. Who are the friends?
(a) Luke Garrett and Spencer.
(b) Thomas Taylor and his daughter.
(c) Charles and Katherine Ambrose.
(d) William and Stella Ransome.

15. Who showed up at the Ransome house during Cora's visit?
(a) William and Cracknell.
(b) Martha and Luke.
(c) Luke and Spencer.
(d) Charles and Katherine Ambrose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does William visit Cracknell?

2. Who are Gog and Magog?

3. Martha says to Cora and Frankie, "He never did like us to be late" (21). Who is He?

4. When the earthquake had hit Colchester, what did the neighboring town think had happened?

5. What does Cora and William witness together?

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