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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Hartley lock herself when she enters the house after Charles walks up to the door with her?
(a) Kitchen
(b) Inner tower
(c) Bathroom
(d) Bedroom

2. What is Hartley beginning to mutter to herself that she wants to do, besides go home?
(a) Die
(b) Kill Titus
(c) Kill Charles
(d) Move

3. Who is the first of many visitors that Charles has the next day after talking with Hartley?
(a) Rosina
(b) Gilbert
(c) Fitch
(d) Lizzie

4. Rosina reveals that when she and Charles were together, he made her _____________.
(a) Pregnant
(b) Happy
(c) Sick
(d) Miserable

5. Charles considers the idea that James might possibly be in ______________.
(a) Tibet
(b) Okinawa
(c) Paris
(d) Chicago

6. What does Charles use in order to lure Hartley away from her home and into Charles's arms?
(a) A phone call
(b) A distress call
(c) Sunlight off a mirror
(d) A coded telegram

7. Titus realizes that Charles wants to use him as __________ in order to see Hartley.
(a) A thief
(b) Bait
(c) An accomplice
(d) A toy

8. Who begins to drink heavily as a result of the death of one of the members of the household?
(a) Peregrine
(b) Charles
(c) James
(d) Lizzie

9. _____________ is strolling precariously on the rocks bordering the sea when someone pushes him into the water.
(a) Charles
(b) Fitch
(c) Peregrine
(d) James

10. Hartley becomes horrified when she finds out that Charles _________________.
(a) Watched her as she slept.
(b) Tried to kill Fitch.
(c) Listened in on her and Fitch.
(d) Has been lying to Titus.

11. _____________ begins to resent the fun that Titus and Gilbert seem to be having with each other.
(a) Peregrine
(b) James
(c) Charles
(d) Hartley

12. Who decides to take over the cooking at the house for the group living with Charles?
(a) James
(b) Titus
(c) Lizzie
(d) Charles

13. What does Charles decide he has to prepare for as he heads out for the invited event?
(a) Hartley living with him.
(b) Fitch giving up Hartley.
(c) Hartley being dead.
(d) Fitch killing him.

14. Charles becomes angry with Harley as he feels he is offering her _____________.
(a) Freedom
(b) Love
(c) Honesty
(d) Riches

15. Charles is thinking about accepting an offer to _______________ from an old friend.
(a) Read a book
(b) Buy a boat
(c) Direct a play
(d) Buy a home

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles sends _______________ to a pub, telling him to wait there for future instructions.

2. Charles discovers a letter from _____________ in his mailbox, unopened and unread.

3. At this point of the book, Charles decides he is no longer writing a ____________, but rather a memoir.

4. _______________ is almost catatonic with fear and with tension, according to Charles.

5. Charles decides to return to his life in the ____________, according to the diary entries.

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