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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days after her dream is Adeline locked in her room?

2. How does Adeline escape from her room in Chapter 11?

3. In Adeline's dream in Chapter 4, what does a voice tell her?

4. Why does Adeline stop reading the manuscript at the beginning of Chapter 9?

5. What does Peter tell Adeline the Marquis intends to do no matter what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What danger does Peter tell Adeline about in Chapter 10?

2. What worries do Adeline and Theodore have as they travel away from the Marquis in Chapter 12?

3. How does Adeline escape from the Marquis' home in Chapter 11? Who does she encounter after escaping?

4. What does Theodore hear Adeline saying in the woods in Chapter 7? What does Theodore warn Adeline about?

5. Who arrives at the abbey on a stormy night in Chapter 6?

6. Where does Adeline discover a hidden room in Chapter 8? What does she find in the room?

7. What does La Motte do to make Adeline cry in Chapter 1?

8. How does La Motte's behavior change after he and his household settle in at the abbey? How does Madame La Motte explain the change in his personality?

9. Why does La Motte's group return to spend the night at the Abbey in Chapter 2?

10. Where is Adeline taken at the beginning of Chapter 11? What is she told while there?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Radcliffe's use of foreshadowing. What are some examples of foreshadowing in the novel? Why does Radcliffe use foreshadowing? How do the examples of foreshadowing affect the tone of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and interpret the protagonist of the novel Adeline. What are Adeline's defining character traits? Who is she close to in the novel? What happens to Adeline throughout the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and interpret the relationship between Adeline and Theodore. What do they feel for one another? What conflicts arise between them? What do they assume of one another when they first meet? Why is it hard for Mary to trust Theodore at first?

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