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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 type of person did the mother think he might be?
(a) Retired politician.
(b) Titled.
(c) Royalty.
(d) Aristocracy.

2. What was the girl telling her mother with a look as her mother reached for the clasp of her purse?
(a) Give him more money.
(b) He is trying to trick you.
(c) He is a thief.
(d) Do not take advantage of the old man.

3. Who did mother think the man might have been?
(a) Sir Robert Silverton.
(b) Sir David Bronzeworth.
(c) Sir Harry Goldsworthy.
(d) Sir Philip Wigton.

4. What did the mother tell her daughter would happen if she was evaluating a person and did not rush?
(a) Not be hurt.
(b) Not lose money.
(c) Not make mistakes.
(d) Not be taken advantage of.

5. Where did the mother and daughter go as they followed the man?
(a) Across the street.
(b) On the opposite side of the street.
(c) In an alley.
(d) Down the sidewalk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the old man do when the mother gave him the money?

2. At what speed did the man move after leaving the mother and daughter?

3. When the mother and daughter came to a corner, how close was the man to them?

4. What did the mother tell her daughter to do when summing someone up?

5. How did the mother stand as she watched the old man move away?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of look did the girl give her mother as her mother reached for the clasp of her purse?

2. What did the old man say about the umbrella as the mother thought about giving him a pound for it?

3. What did the mother say when the daughter asked why she was so horrid to the old man in the beginning?

4. Why did the old man not walk home?

5. Why did the mother decide the man was up to something when she and her daughter watched him scurry away?

6. What did the old man say when the mother offered to give him the taxi fare?

7. How did the old man tell the mother and daughter that he got to town?

8. What did the mother tell the man before she gave him any money?

9. What did the daughter observe about her mother as she thought about the old man's offer?

10. What happened when the mother gave the old man a pound note?

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