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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. How did Mariana's father die?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Car accident.
(c) Mugging.
(d) Prostate cancer.

2. From what play does Clarissa believe the quote is from on the postcard Mariana finds in Tara's room?
(a) Iphigenia in Tauris.
(b) The Children of Heracles.
(c) Alcmaeon in Corinth.
(d) The Trojan Women.

3. In Part 2, Chapter 1, what does the journal writer say he saw when walking in the city?
(a) Black cat.
(b) Fox.
(c) Three-legged dog.
(d) Possum.

4. How old was Tennyson when he fled home and went to Cambridge?
(a) 18.
(b) 20.
(c) 19.
(d) 17.

5. How old was Mariana when she moved to England?
(a) 16.
(b) 13.
(c) 15.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 16, what time of the special service for Tara?

2. In the quote on the postcard Mariana finds in Tara's room, to whom must a maiden of noble birth be sacrificed?

3. How many people attend Mariana's Monday-evening group?

4. What tearoom does Tara's bedder take Mariana to?

5. Where was Tara from?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 2, Chapter 9, what does Mariana remember about the first time Zoe met Sebastian?

2. Who does Mariana meet by the river in Part 2, Chapter 3, and why and when do they arrange to meet?

3. Who does Mariana meet on the train in Chapter 9?

4. How is Mariana able to speak with Conrad Ellis?

5. What does Mariana see in Tara's room that seems strange?

6. What do Veronica and Serena say about being with Professor Fosca the night that Tara was murdered?

7. Why does Zoe think it is her fault that Tara is dead?

8. How did Sebastian die?

9. How did Mariana meet Sebastian?

10. What is the room like where Mariana stays at the college?

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