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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. __________ and other interested parties ask Charles to be given the books and artifacts in his new home.
(a) Lawyers
(b) Museums
(c) Police investigators
(d) Auctioneers

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

3. What interrupts the conversation between Charles and Titus by the sea?
(a) A warning
(b) A ship
(c) A sea serpent
(d) Rosina

4. Charles says that the ____________ is the only part of his life with any meaning and that he wants to wait for Hartley.
(a) Future
(b) Present
(c) House
(d) Past

5. Charles now realizes that he has always been in love with his own _______________.
(a) Youth
(b) Promise
(c) Talent
(d) Heart

Short Answer Questions

1. James tells Charles he sees plans for ______________ in Charles's eyes, and notices also the long simmering resentment.

2. ______________ tells Charles that when he dropped off the letter he heard Fitch talking to another woman.

3. The next morning, Charles dresses Hartley in an overcoat and a _____________ for her trip back home.

4. Rosina reveals that when she and Charles were together, he made her _____________.

5. Who confesses that he tried to kill Charles as a result of years of not liking Charles at all?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Titus's protest to Charles's statement that he brought Hartley to the home with intentions of keeping her there?

2. What does Charles discover as he is waiting for the people to leave his house?

3. What does Charles promise Titus he will do for him when he is staying at the house with him?

4. What does Charles imagine as Fitch becomes insistent about bringing Hartley back home with him?

5. Why does Charles treat Rosina with contempt and with dismissiveness?

6. Why did Peregrine attempt to kill Charles, as he states in his confession to Charles in this section?

7. How does Rosina interrupt the trip back to Nibletts, which is taking Hartley back to her husband?

8. What does Charles decide happened to him the night that Peregrine tried to kill him?

9. What does Fitch demand from Charles when he arrives at the home where Hartley is staying?

10. Who does Charles believe is deceiving him, according to his diary entries?

(see the answer keys)

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