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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 does Charles offer to do for Merricat?
(a) Dig up her treasures.
(b) Build her a treehouse.
(c) Send her to a fancy school.
(d) Run her Tuesday errands.

2. Who owns the nicest home in the village?
(a) The Clarkes.
(b) The Shepherds.
(c) The Rochesters.
(d) The Carringtons.

3. What is the weather like in Chapter 4?
(a) Warm.
(b) Stormy.
(c) Calm.
(d) Snowy.

4. What does Merricat's uncle rely on to get around?
(a) A cane.
(b) Crutches.
(c) A zimmerframe.
(d) A wheelchair.

5. Why didn't Charles ever visit the girls before?
(a) He though they had died.
(b) He didn't know where they lived.
(c) His father wouldn't let him.
(d) He was living abroad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Merricat talk about eating on the moon in Chapter 5?

2. What is in the Blackwoods' orchard?

3. What does Merricat notice as she watches Constance and Charles talk?

4. How can Merricat tell that Julian is well when she goes home in Chapter 5?

5. What does the stranger who comes to the house in Chapter 4 call from outside?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who comes to see Julian in Chapter 3? What does Constance do before his arrival?

2. What does Mary Katherine wonder about the library books in Chapter 1?

3. What does Merricat speak to Constance about playfully at the beginning of Chapter 5?

4. Where does Merricat go in Chapter 4?

5. What does Julian ask Charles about at breakfast? How does Charles act toward Julian?

6. What does Julian describe in detail in Chapter 3?

7. What are Mary Katherine's thoughts about the Rochester house?

8. Who does Helen Clarke bring with her to the Blackwoods'? How do Merricat and Constance feel about having an extra guest?

9. Why has Charles never come to help the Blackwood sisters before?

10. How does Charles try to make conversation with Merricat in Chapter 5?

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