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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 does the Duke learn to do by ice skating?
(a) Do turns on the ice.
(b) Be normal.
(c) Interact with others.
(d) Ice stake backward.

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

3. What does the Duke learn while visiting with a professor at the university?
(a) The rules of education.
(b) The process of trepanning.
(c) How to read palms.
(d) The meaning of happiness.

4. 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) Move the dishes from one room to the next.
(c) Take the cart to his room.
(d) Push him around in it.

5. Where does the Duke decide to take a walk to on December 11th?
(a) Tile Kiln & Low Close wood.
(b) Holbeck Village.
(c) Town Hall.
(d) The post office.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did the staff and Dr. Cox decide to wait so long to tell the Duke about his friend's death?

3. Why does the Duke search the attic?

4. How does the Duke feel in his reoccurring dream?

5. Where did Fowler's bust used to sit when the Duke was a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does just the presence of others reduce the loneliness the Duke feels?

2. Why does the Duke's staff think he needs an escort while traveling?

3. What is the setting like in Camera Obscura?

4. What is included in the Duke's shrine?

5. What happens when the Duke visits Holbeck village?

6. How does the housemaid's account provide a glimpse into the Duke's personality as a child?

7. Why is the Duke's visit to Reverend Mellor significant?

8. What is significant about the Duke traveling between January 6-11th?

9. Why does the Duke allow people to skate on the ice but protests to going on the ice with them?

10. What does Conner say about the Duke's phantom boy?

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