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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 color is Sir Abraham's hair?
(a) Red.
(b) Brown.
(c) Black.
(d) Gray.

2. Who offers Harding several jobs to keep him nearby?
(a) Grantly.
(b) Chadwick.
(c) The bishop.
(d) Bold.

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

4. 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.

5. Who meets Harding at the train station when he goes home?
(a) Bold.
(b) Susan.
(c) The bishop.
(d) Eleanor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator says unmarried woman of what age would oppose Eleanor and not give her sympathy?

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

4. How does the narrator describe Harding's usual mood?

5. Who says, "That's philosophical; it's quite refreshing to hear a man talking of his hundreds in so purely indifferent a manner"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bold suspect that he is to blame for the article in the newspaper that slanders Harding?

2. What happens when Eleanor tells Mary that she cannot marry Bold?

3. Why does Harding plan to sell his furniture when he resigns?

4. How does Grantly react when Harding tells him he will resign?

5. What is Grantly's idea for how Harding can remain employed?

6. How does a magazine called "The Almshouse" portray Harding?

7. Why does Grantly assume that Bold wants to drop the changes against Harding?

8. Why does Bold leave angrily from his meeting with Tom?

9. How does Bold react when he comes home and finds Eleanor there crying?

10. Why does Harding rush to find Sir Abraham as soon as he gets to London?

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