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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. Why does William visit Cracknell?
(a) To meet Charles and Katherine Ambrose.
(b) Cracknell had asked William to visit.
(c) To check on Cracknell's well-being.
(d) Because one of Cracknell's goats died.

2. What did Martha think of Spencer?
(a) Martha thought that Spencer was a generous man.
(b) Martha was impressed with Spencer's wealth.
(c) Martha liked that Spencer was a socialist, like herself.
(d) Martha though of Spencer as a source of influence and income.

3. What does Cora and William witness together?
(a) A blood red sunset.
(b) They find the remains of Leviathan.
(c) The Essex Serpent.
(d) The Flying Dutchman mirage.

4. When the earthquake had hit Colchester, what did the neighboring town think had happened?
(a) The other towns did not feel the earthquake that happened in Colchester.
(b) Others thought there was a building collapse that shook the ground.
(c) The town of Maldon thought someone had set off dynamite.
(d) The neighboring town thought there was a tsunami.

5. Naomi is proud of the webbing between her fingers because whom does she believe also had webbing on their hands?
(a) Mr. Ransome.
(b) Naomi's dad.
(c) Anne Boleyn.
(d) Cora Seaborne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes to Cora after the Ambrose introduction?

2. What shames Cora more than anything?

3. What made Mary Anning take an interest in nature?

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

5. Why is Luke Garrett considered dangerous?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Flying Dutchman that Cora and William saw while walking?

2. Who writes to Cora first to invite her to visit the family in Aldwinter?

3. What did Stella find in Aldwinter that kept her entertained and happy?

4. Whom did Naomi believe to have webbed hands like her own?

5. What did Cracknell's Gog and Magog provide him and Mrs. Ransome?

6. Luke Garrett was the first person to successfully complete what type of surgery in London?

7. How did Cora meet Thomas Taylor, the beggar?

8. What character is introduced reciting the parts of the human heart?

9. What does Cora think is of the utmost importance for a person to do for themselves?

10. What caused the naturalist, Mary Anning, to begin her studies of the natural sciences?

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