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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do critics say Anticant cannot do?
(a) Paint with watercolors.
(b) Sing.
(c) Relate to people.
(d) Write English.

2. How much is Harding's little cottage worth a year?
(a) 60 pounds.
(b) 80 pounds.
(c) 120 pounds.
(d) 100 pounds.

3. Who says, "I am sure he loves you better than anything in the world."
(a) Bold.
(b) Grantly.
(c) Eleanor.
(d) Mary.

4. A second newspaper article that speaks badly of Harding asks why an old men's home needs what?
(a) A warden.
(b) A preacher.
(c) A nurse.
(d) A manager.

5. Where is Anticant from?
(a) Ireland.
(b) England.
(c) Wales.
(d) Scotland.

6. How much money does Grantly tell Harding he will have when he resigns?
(a) A quarter of what he thinks.
(b) Half of what he thinks.
(c) About 100 pounds a year.
(d) 75 percent of what he thinks.

7. Who says, "I had such good news for you, and now you make me fear I am too late"?
(a) Eleanor.
(b) Bold.
(c) Susan.
(d) Harding.

8. Who tells Bold that Eleanor has come to see him?
(a) Finney.
(b) Harding.
(c) Grantly.
(d) Mary.

9. What is Anticant's first name?
(a) Craven.
(b) Cynic.
(c) Pessimist.
(d) Alarmist.

10. What is Sentiment's first name?
(a) Vogue.
(b) Faddish.
(c) Popular.
(d) Trendy.

11. Which character is friends with Tom?
(a) Bold.
(b) Grantly.
(c) Mary.
(d) Susan.

12. How is Sir Abraham described?
(a) Short and skinny.
(b) Short and fat.
(c) Big and tall.
(d) Tall and thin.

13. How much does Bold think dropping the lawsuit will cost?
(a) 400 pounds.
(b) 1,000 pounds.
(c) 800 pounds.
(d) 300 pounds.

14. Who says, "That's philosophical; it's quite refreshing to hear a man talking of his hundreds in so purely indifferent a manner"?
(a) Grantly.
(b) Tom.
(c) Bold.
(d) Harding.

15. What is the name of the magazine Bold buys after leaving Tom?
(a) The Almshouse.
(b) The Doghouse.
(c) The Poorhouse.
(d) The Outhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lays in bed at the beginning of Chapter 11, "Iphigenia"?

2. Who does Harding want to see immediately when he arrives in London?

3. Who dies at the end of Chapter 20, "Farewell"?

4. When does Harding say he will resign from the old men's home?

5. Where does Harding say he is going at the beginning of Chapter 13, "The Warden's Decision"?

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