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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 is the profession of James, the main character of this story's events?
(a) Writer.
(b) Orderly.
(c) Librarian.
(d) Doctor.

2. How much older is Anna than James is, according to his memory?
(a) 6 years.
(b) They are the same age.
(c) She isn't older.
(d) 2 years.

3. What did James realize about the house when he decided to leave to find Hugo?
(a) The doors were all locked.
(b) The house was Anna's.
(c) The house was on fire.
(d) He didn't know where he was.

4. James recalls a time when Magdalen destroyed a manuscript of his ___________ that might have been an epic.
(a) Limericks.
(b) Photographs.
(c) Children's stories.
(d) Poetry.

5. Anna suggests that James talk to __________ about staying at their flat as they are going to be going to the States for a while.
(a) Magdalen.
(b) Sadie.
(c) Mrs. Tinckham.
(d) Julia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the artists that Hugo collected the art of within his living area?

2. Whose name was mentioned in a conversation, making James stop what he was doing and listen in?

3. Hugo and James were eventually asked to leave the clinic for fear of ______________.

4. Sadie said that all they needed to do was to present him with the ______________, the script, and the contracts.

5. James decided to settle into the __________ room with a drink and a cigarette.

Short Essay Questions

1. What was in the bundle of letters that Finn was holding for James in this book?

2. What did Sadie tell James to do when he arrived at her house to move into her flat in this book?

3. Why does Sadie want James to move into her house a little earlier than he expected?

4. What does the telegram that James receives at the cafe reveal to him in this book?

5. What happens to the company that Hugo had inherited from his parents in this book?

6. What is James convinced that fate is trying to do for him in his life in this book?

7. What does James do as he begins to settle into his new home at Sadie's flat in this book?

8. What does James notice in the middle of the top shelf when he wakes up in the chair at Sadie's?

9. Why did Sammy offer James 200 pounds when James sees him at Magdalen's house in this book?

10. What do Finn and James find upon breaking into Sammy's place to find the script?

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