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

2. What happens to Naomi at the White Hare tavern?
(a) Naomi is asked to show her webbing.
(b) Naomi is raped.
(c) Naomi makes friends with the men drinking there.
(d) Naomi is offered a drink.

3. 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.

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

5. What happens as the villagers view the dead fish?
(a) A woman falls down almost face-to-face with the dead fish.
(b) The flesh starts to fall off the bones.
(c) A giant tapeworm bursts from its belly.
(d) The tide washes the body away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Martha accuse Cora of wanting?

2. What is on the piece of paper Naomi slips to Joanna in the classroom?

3. Why is Stella distraught after she visits the London physicians?

4. What kinds of symptoms does tuberculosis cause in patients?

5. How long is the carcass?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is causing Joanna's disdain for Naomi?

2. Why does Luke Garrett suggests hypnosis for Joanna?

3. What is Martha's suggested solution to Edward's marriage proposal?

4. What was the cause of the pervasive and foul smell in Aldwinter?

5. What does spes phthisica confer on a tuberculosis patient?

6. Where does William take Stella after Luke Garrett writes to him?

7. Why does Martha refuse Edward's marriage proposal?

8. Why does Joanna want to strike her own father inside the church?

9. Who is raising Stella's children while she is ill?

10. Why does Frankie not immediately enter Stella's room when he visits her with Cora?

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