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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Duke generally think about man?
(a) He has the power to create everything.
(b) He is not a true creator.
(c) He really knows nothing.
(d) He is ingenious.

2. What does Clements force the Duke to do?
(a) Take a bath.
(b) Join the locals in ice skating.
(c) Take his medince.
(d) Make the locals leave the property.

3. What does the Duke find in one of the stables?
(a) A box of coins.
(b) A recipe book.
(c) An old bust.
(d) A family picture.

4. Who is Mr. Hendley?
(a) The Mayer.
(b) The Duke's driver.
(c) Local postman.
(d) The butler.

5. In another story told by the housemaid, who does the Duke ask to help him with the dumbwaiter?
(a) The housemaid.
(b) The butler.
(c) Molly.
(d) Conners.

6. What does the Duke learn could be looked at from different perspective in "From His Grace's Journal to Mrs. Pledger's Account?"
(a) People.
(b) Food.
(c) His tunnel system.
(d) His house.

7. What is unique about the Duke's finding in one of the old stalls?
(a) It revels the true amount of his fortune.
(b) It is the missing piece to his life the Duke has been searching.
(c) It suggests he was adopted.
(d) It maps out phrenologically important lines on the skull.

8. What does Mr. Hendley agree to?
(a) Let the Duke ride his bike above ground.
(b) Take a carriage ride through the tunnels.
(c) Introduce the Duke to his sister.
(d) Stop the mail.

9. During "From His Grace's Journal to Mrs. Pledger's Account," who joins the Duke in the study?
(a) Mr. Bird.
(b) Connor.
(c) Clement.
(d) Mr. Hendley.

10. In the story from the Duke's childhood as told by the housemaid, once the Duke has a cart, what does he ask the housemaid to do with it?
(a) Pull off the wheels of the cart.
(b) Push him around in it.
(c) Take the cart to his room.
(d) Move the dishes from one room to the next.

11. What was the dumbwaiter used for?
(a) To take food to the second floor.
(b) To lower the laundry to the basement.
(c) It was never used.
(d) To transport coal.

12. When does the Duke sense the phantom boy?
(a) In the attic.
(b) Only in the underground tunnels.
(c) When he smokes his father's briar pipe.
(d) All the time.

13. What does the Duke do while the locals are on his property?
(a) Watches them.
(b) Yells at them.
(c) Joins them.
(d) Nothing.

14. How does the Duke feel skating with the others?
(a) Strange.
(b) Unwelcome.
(c) A sense of fellowship.
(d) Confused.

15. In his reoccurring dream, what is the Duke's mother doing?
(a) Laughing.
(b) Reading a book.
(c) Crying.
(d) Yelling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Duke do with Fowler's bust now that his father is dead?

2. What preoccupies the Duke on December 2, 5, and 7?

3. Based on the Mr. Hendley's account, what does the Duke have a desire to do?

4. What does the Duke realize can happen even when surrounded by other people?

5. Why does the Duke want to travel alone?

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