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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 book, mentioned in "The Jesting of Arlington Stringham," is to have been denied being read by everyone?
(a) "Utopia."
(b) "By Mere Chance."
(c) "120 Days of Sodom."
(d) "The Gospel of Mary."

2. What age was the Baroness at the time of "Esme"?
(a) 20.
(b) 27.
(c) 23.
(d) 19.

3. Why does Mrs. Packletide say that she will never hunt again?
(a) Too expensive.
(b) Too emotional.
(c) Too humbling.
(d) Too much excitement.

4. What does Clovis believe to be "more beautiful than any religion"?
(a) Oysters.
(b) Homer.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Merlot.

5. What kind of buzzards does Mrs. Olsten say are nesting in her woods?
(a) Black-breasted Buzzards.
(b) Common Buzzards.
(c) Rough-Legged Buzzards.
(d) Buteo Buzzards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Clovis' host, is "becoming a habit" with Clovis?

2. According to "The Blood-Feud of Toad-Water," what attribute do both hen-folk and women-kind both fail possess?

3. In "Esme," what does Clovis state were all the same?

4. Why does the Baroness prefer her home to the wilderness?

5. What does the narrator, in "Reginald's Rubaiyat," come to realize while they were in the bathroom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Clovis' idea for getting out of the sale of the Brogue?

2. Why does Mrs. Packletide believe that she needs to kill a tiger in India?

3. According to "Reginald on Christmas Presents," why are aunts a "difficult class to deal with"?

4. What does Clovis do to insure that Jane has left before Dora shows up at his home?

5. What happens when Mrs. Packletide shot at the tiger?

6. What does Reinald say one comes to know at a host's home?

7. Why does Clovis believe that oysters are "more beautiful than any religion"?

8. Why does Reginald want to write a poem on peace?

9. In "The Innocence of Reginald," what two things does Reginald believe fail to go together?

10. Why is Mrs. Mullet unhappy that Mr Penricarde had purchased the Brogue?

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