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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1 - 3 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miss Furnivall have a hard time doing?
(a) Hearing.
(b) Seeing.
(c) Speaking.
(d) Walking.

2. What was Miss Rosamond's father's occupation?
(a) Cook.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Clergyman.
(d) Driver.

3. How is Mrs. Furnivall's housemaid described?
(a) Scowling and scrawny.
(b) Plump and jolly.
(c) Ruddy and serene.
(d) Cold, grey, and stony.

4. Where is the narrator originally from?
(a) Eastmorland.
(b) Westmorland.
(c) North Umberland.
(d) South Umberland.

5. How did the narrator feel when her teacher recommended her to work for the children's grandfather?
(a) Ashamed.
(b) Astonished.
(c) Proud.
(d) Frightened.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Old Nurse's Story"?

2. Which servant had spent most of their life with the Furnivall's?

3. How do the nursemaid and Miss Rosamond feel around Miss Furnivall and Mrs. Stark when they first meet them?

4. Why does the nursemaid wake Miss Rosamond when Mr. Henry asks her to despite not thinking it wise?

5. What is the name of the baby for whom the narrator was in charge?

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