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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 preoccupies the Duke on December 2, 5, and 7?
(a) The tunnel project.
(b) The dying trees.
(c) The phantom boy.
(d) His thoughts.

2. What does the Duke need from Reverend Mellor?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Information on phrenology.
(c) Information on getting married in the chruch.
(d) To confinde in someone.

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

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

5. When does the Duke travel to Edinburgh?
(a) December 20-24th.
(b) January 12-13th.
(c) January 6-11th.
(d) January 28th.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his reoccurring dream, what is the Duke's father doing?

2. How does the Duke feel skating with the others?

3. During "From His Grace's Journal to Mr. Hendley's Account" what does the reader learn about what the Duke thinks of himself?

4. What does the professor say about the process of trepanning?

5. In his reoccurring dream, what is the Duke's mother doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Duke add Fowler's bust to his shrine?

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

3. Why does the Duke think his life has been wasted?

4. Why doesn't the Duke find out about Snow's death until after the funeral?

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

6. What reduces the Duke's anxiety while he is in Camera Obscura?

7. What is the recurring dream discussed in the January 28th journal entry?

8. How does the process of trepanning work?

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

10. What does the Duke learn while traveling with others in his room that is in sharp contrast to the fellowship felt while ice skating a few weeks before?

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