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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frankie experience when he goes out walking after the dinner party?
(a) Cracknell dying.
(b) Frankie experiences fear for the first time.
(c) Frankie experienced the loss of a treasure.
(d) The Essex Serpent.

2. Why does Cora return to Aldwinter?
(a) She is invited by Stella and William.
(b) She learns Stella is dying.
(c) Katherine berates her for being so selfish a friend.
(d) Cora no longer has to worry about Frankie or Martha.

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

4. Why is Stella distraught after she visits the London physicians?
(a) Because she has tuberculosis.
(b) Her children have been removed from the house.
(c) She believes the doctors are going to torture her.
(d) The doctors are trying to take her blue things.

5. What spectacle does the group touring the slums witness?
(a) A man playing a portable organ.
(b) A monkey performing.
(c) A small girl smoking.
(d) A dog fight.

6. What does William dislike about Magog, when the family acquires him?
(a) The smell of the goat.
(b) The slotted eyes of the goat.
(c) The noises the goat makes.
(d) That the goat eats all the flowers.

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

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

9. Who is invited and visits Joanna and Naomi's school?
(a) Cora.
(b) William.
(c) Martha.
(d) Stella.

10. Why does Katherine decide to let the children visit Stella?
(a) Stella has asked to see her children.
(b) Katherine receives word from William that it is okay.
(c) She finds them all together crying in the middle of the night.
(d) Joanna is upset after Cora's visit and Katherine wants to make her better.

11. According to Cora, what should people be afraid of?
(a) The Essex Serpent.
(b) Fear.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Nothing.

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

13. According to Naomi, what does Joanna do when she thinks no one is looking at school?
(a) Pretend to be smart.
(b) Have fits like a two-year old.
(c) Perform old pagan rituals.
(d) Wipe her nose on her sleeve.

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

15. What is on the piece of paper Naomi slips to Joanna in the classroom?
(a) A spell they had written weeks earlier.
(b) A poem Naomi has written.
(c) It is a note to Joanna asking her if she is mad.
(d) There is a drawing of the Essex Serpent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Stella pitty her husband?

2. What is the purpose for Spencer asking for Charles' help with the housing in London?

3. What is wrong with Stella's lungs?

4. After the summer dinner party, William realizes his parishioners are happy about what?

5. Why does Cora immediately write Luke after she wrote her angry letter?

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