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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first name of Mr. Temple?
(a) George.
(b) Graham.
(c) Gabriel.
(d) Gregory.

2. What name does the landlady call Billy as they are together in the sitting room?
(a) Mr. Wilkins.
(b) Mr. Wallace.
(c) Mr. White.
(d) Mr. Wagner.

3. According to the landlady, who stays on the first floor of the bed and breakfast?
(a) The other boarders.
(b) Billy.
(c) The landlady.
(d) The servants.

4. What does Billy believe about when Mr. Mulholland left the bed and breakfast?
(a) That he left recently.
(b) That he left shortly after arriving.
(c) That he never left.
(d) That he left years earlier.

5. According to Billy, how old is Mr. Temple's guestbook entry?
(a) 4 years old.
(b) 6 months old.
(c) 1 year old.
(d) 2 years old.

6. According to Billy after the landlady shows him to his room, what kind of soul does the landlady have?
(a) A kind and generous one.
(b) A romantic and loving one.
(c) A dark and deceptive one.
(d) A quiet and clever one.

7. To whose mother does Billy compare the landlady upon first seeing her?
(a) The mother of a friend from school.
(b) His own mother.
(c) The mother of his neighbor.
(d) The mother of his mother.

8. The phrase "as though the tray were a pair of reins on a frisky horse" is what type of figurative language?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Simile.
(c) Irony.
(d) Metphor.

9. According to the landlady, who stays on the second floor of the bed and breakfast?
(a) Billy.
(b) The other boarders.
(c) The servants.
(d) The landlady.

10. What has the landlady added to Billy's bed in order to warm it up for him?
(a) A hot water bottle.
(b) Hot coals.
(c) A hot baking pan.
(d) A hot brick.

11. What is the first name of Mr. Mulholland?
(a) Cyrus.
(b) Clancy.
(c) Charles.
(d) Christopher.

12. When Billy thinks the landlady is harmless, what literary device is being used?
(a) Irony.
(b) Simile.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metaphor.

13. When Billy compares the landlady to a mother, he envisions her welcoming him for what holiday?
(a) Easter.
(b) Thanksgiving.
(c) Boxing Day.
(d) Christmas.

14. What is Billy's reaction to reading the names of Mr. Mulholland and Mr. Temple?
(a) He thinks he has heard of them before.
(b) He thinks nothing of them.
(c) He thinks they worked at the Head Office.
(d) He thinks he went to school with them.

15. What does Billy assume about the landlady's past?
(a) That she lost a husband in an accident.
(b) That she lost a son in the war.
(c) That she was jilted at the altar.
(d) That she had never married.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the landlady, why do so few people stay at the bed and breakfast?

2. How does Billy feel about the price of the bed and breakfast?

3. When Billy goes down to the sitting room, what does he discover the dog doing?

4. Upon showing Billy around the bed and breakfast, how does the landlady describe her home?

5. What causes Billy to dismiss his initial concerns about the landlady?

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