2. What does Charles Ambrose believe about the poor of Bethnal Green?
(a) He feels the poor act like animals when they yell from the balconies.
(b) He indicates that the poor do not have the physical build to succeed.
(c) He believes the poor have failed to adapt and survive.
(d) He thinks the poor are always drunk.

3. Why is Charles interested in going to visit the housing projects with Spencer and Martha?
(a) Charles likes to visit the slums on occasion.
(b) Charles thinks of it as a case study.
(c) Charles believes they need to be chaperoned.
(d) Charles knows they will need his money.

4. What does Cora discover about the body of the dead fish?
(a) Cora finds that the dead fish is a giant eel.
(b) She discovers that it is from Bermuda.
(c) There is an oar fish that looks the same found in Bermuda.
(d) The dead fish is no longer visible.

5. What does Cora and William discover at the summer dinner party?
(a) That they are very good friends.
(b) That they are being thrown together by Stella.
(c) Neither of them are able to dance.
(d) They are in love with each other.

6. How does Cora think William thinks of her?
(a) Cora thinks William is in love with her.
(b) She believes William thinks of her as friend.
(c) Cora thinks William believes she is just a friend of Stella's.
(d) She thinks William looks at her as simply a mind.

7. What is the horrible smell that makes the villagers of Aldwinter wake up and vomit?
(a) The Essex Serpent.
(b) The smell of low tide was especially harsh.
(c) The rotting carcass of a fish.
(d) The source of the smell was not discovered.

8. How does Martha save Ed Burton's home?
(a) Martha speaks to Charles about financing Edward's home.
(b) She writes to Spencer to tell him about the potential loss.
(c) Martha has protested enough that the city has stepped in to help.
(d) She asks Spencer for money.

9. How is a story supposed to begin, according to Cora?
(a) Once upon a time.
(b) Long ago, and far, far away.
(c) One day, long ago.
(d) In the beginning.

10. What does Evansford do when he hears about an unexplained death in St. Osyth?
(a) Evansford paints each door lintel with chicken blood.
(b) He sacrifices a chicken to appease the Essex Serpent.
(c) Evansford shut's their town borders.
(d) He uses Cracknell's moles as wards.

11. What does Spencer believe of the people who built the new housing on the Thames Embankment?
(a) The builders deliberately made the apartments smaller than the existing ones.
(b) They would not house their hounds in such a building.
(c) Spencer thinks the poor will end up destroying the new buildings.
(d) Spencer believes the builders were really trying to make the living quarters nicer.

12. According to Spencer, what is Luke refusing to do?
(a) Physical therapy.
(b) Accept pity.
(c) Practice medicine.
(d) Write.

13. Who tells Cora the Essex Serpent was found?
(a) Katherine Ambrose.
(b) Stella Ransome.
(c) Charles Ambrose.
(d) William Ransome.

14. Why is Cora angry with Luke's letter?
(a) Because no one writes a love letter without the hopes of it being returned.
(b) Cora feels Luke has taken advantage of her state of mind.
(c) Because she is no longer friends with William.
(d) Because Luke promised he was only a friend.

15. What kinds of symptoms does tuberculosis cause in patients?
(a) Pain and suffering.
(b) Lightness of heart and spirit.
(c) Tuberculosis causes lungs to collapse.
(d) TB causes coughing.