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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 Merricat ask Charles to do in Chapter 6?
(a) Help Constance go to the village.
(b) Run an errand in the village.
(c) To go away.
(d) Repair the back steps.

2. What does Merricat persuade Constance to take outside and add to the barricade?
(a) A bed frame.
(b) Julian's desk.
(c) Julian's wheelchair.
(d) The broken mirror from Charles' room.

3. What does Merricat bury by the creek in Chapter 10?
(a) Julian's neck tie.
(b) Julian's glasses.
(c) Julian's gold pencil.
(d) Julian's cufflinks.

4. What feature of the Blackwood house do women on the lawn talk about in Chapter 10?
(a) The staircase.
(b) The fireplace.
(c) The wainscotting.
(d) The marble floors.

5. Which room of the house does Merricat hate to go in?
(a) Her mother's bedroom.
(b) The dining room.
(c) The cellar.
(d) Her father's study.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the villagers do after the fire is out?

2. What does Merricat use to barricade the sides of the house in Chapter 10?

3. In Chapter 6, what does Charles tell Constance she shouldn't keep in the house?

4. What does Merricat feel within the house when she goes home in Chapter 8?

5. In Chapter 9, how many more times did Helen Clarke come by the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 10, what does Merricat build to protect her and her sister? What item is brought from the house to add to it?

2. What does Charles say which causes Merricat to run away in Chapter 7?

3. What do the girls decide to do in honor of Uncle Julian in Chapter 9?

4. How does Charles show his greediness in Chapter 6?

5. In Chapter 7, what does Merricat decide to do on Thursday? What is special about Thursdays?

6. In Chapter 6, what does Charles say when Merricat asks him to go away?

7. What does Charles discover hidden in Chapter 7? How does Merricat think he found it?

8. Faced with a ruined home, what do Constance and Merricat decide to do?

9. What does Merricat do when she peeks in at Charles's room in Chapter 8?

10. What do Constance and Merricat hear a woman tell some children in the Blackwood's yard?

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