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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. What does Cracknell call his scarebeasts?
(a) His dead moles.
(b) His sheep.
(c) His goats.
(d) The Essex Serpent.

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

3. Why does Luke think he might be better off in Edinburgh than London?
(a) Luke felt Edinburgh was more courageous in their medical advances.
(b) Edinburgh had many different hospitals for which to work
(c) Luke was originally from Edinburgh.
(d) Luke knew Edinburgh was the medical capital of the world.

4. What flower has a smell both pleasant and unpleasant?
(a) Jasmine.
(b) Rose.
(c) Poesy.
(d) Daffodil.

5. 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) The town of Maldon thought someone had set off dynamite.
(c) The neighboring town thought there was a tsunami.
(d) Others thought there was a building collapse that shook the ground.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Luke get the child to stop crying on the train?

2. What does William call "the Trouble"?

3. What are Joanna, Naomi and John doing out at the marshes?

4. What does Cora and William witness together?

5. What was one of Stella's favorite past-times?

Short Essay Questions

1. What irritated Luke while he and Spencer traveled to Colchester via the train?

2. Who showed up to the Ransome's house while Cora was visiting for the first time?

3. In the introduction, what was the young man celebrating?

4. What did Cora state emphatically about her comings and goings to Charles Ambrose while having tea?

5. What did Cora feel disgraced her during her attendance at Sunday service in Aldwinter?

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

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

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

9. What did Francis insist on doing immediately after the funeral services of Michael Seaborne?

10. Reverend Willliam Ransome was the Rector of what parish?

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