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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Julian worry about Charles seeing?
(a) What's inside the safe.
(b) Julian's papers.
(c) Julian's best suits.
(d) John's expensive jewelry.

2. What does Constance decide to plant where Julian used to sit?
(a) A peach tree.
(b) Lavender.
(c) A yellow flower.
(d) A blueberry bush.

3. What does Merricat nail to a tree in Chapter 6?
(a) A watch chain.
(b) A ring.
(c) A watch.
(d) A coin.

4. What does Charles say he wants to go through in Chapter 6?
(a) Julian's book.
(b) Merricat's father's clothes.
(c) Constance's preserves.
(d) Merricat's father's will.

5. What did Merricat's mother want to do to the summerhouse?
(a) Burn it down.
(b) Sell it.
(c) Rebuild it.
(d) Board it up.

6. How many unbroken chairs does Merricat find to put at the table?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

7. What does Julian say happened to Merricat at the orphanage?
(a) Merricat died.
(b) Merricat went crazy.
(c) Merricat was abused.
(d) Merricat wrote stories.

8. What does Merricat use to tie the gate closed in Chatpter 6?
(a) Her mother's shawl.
(b) Her father's belt.
(c) A cord from the curtains.
(d) Her father's scarf.

9. What does Merricat not put in Charles's room?
(a) Dried ferns.
(b) Glass fragments.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Sticks.

10. What does Merricat use to barricade the sides of the house in Chapter 10?
(a) Stones.
(b) Tree boughs and branches.
(c) Broken furniture.
(d) Bricks and lumber.

11. What does Merricat notice about Constance in Chapter 8?
(a) Constance is limping.
(b) Constance's eyes are red.
(c) Constance is in a bad mood.
(d) Constance is well made-up.

12. What blocks the kitchen door when Constance and Merricat return home?
(a) The kitchen table.
(b) A mattress.
(c) A pile of furniture on the porch.
(d) A fallen cieling beam.

13. What do Constance and Merricat fashion dresses out of?
(a) Blankets.
(b) Curtains.
(c) Potato sacks.
(d) Tablecloths.

14. What does Merricat see happen at the house while in the forest?
(a) Villagers looting the house.
(b) Police surveying the scene.
(c) The roof cave in.
(d) An ambulance come for Julian.

15. How does Merricat describe the life that slowly took shape for her and Constance?
(a) As happy.
(b) As scary.
(c) As unpredictable.
(d) As miserable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles try to fix in Chapter 7?

2. How does Julian describe Charles?

3. Who does Merricat not expect to be at Julian's funeral?

4. What does Charles threaten to do in Chapter 7 which causes Merricat run away?

5. After the fire, what do the girls do particularly during the afternoons?

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