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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 8 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the nursemaid begin to hear during winter nights at the Manor House?
(a) Ladies whispering.
(b) An organ playing.
(c) A child screaming.
(d) The servants laughing.

2. In what room are Hester and the little girl playing when Miss Rosamond says she sees the little girl again?
(a) The billiard room.
(b) The drawing room.
(c) The library.
(d) The kitchen.

3. How is the image of the young Miss Furnivall described from her portrait on the wall?
(a) Beautiful but scornful.
(b) Unattractive but proud.
(c) Beautiful and demure.
(d) Scrawny but confidence.

4. Who yells at the old man not to hit the child at the end of the story?
(a) Miss Rosamond.
(b) Mrs. Starks.
(c) Hester.
(d) Miss Furnivall.

5. Why does James look down on his wife Dorothy a bit?
(a) Because she could not read.
(b) Because she could not cook.
(c) Because the Furnivall's looked down on her.
(d) Because before they married she had only lived with a farm family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is speaking when Hester's name is first used in the story?

2. Who is the narrator of "Old Nurse's Story"?

3. To whom does Hester first tell Miss Rosamond's tale of the little girl and the holly tree?

4. What is Miss Furnivall who lives in the Manor House first name?

5. What is rumored to "soften" the old lord?

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