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

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

3. What does Charles do while the house is on fire?
(a) Carries items down from upstairs.
(b) Helps Julian from the porch.
(c) Tries to find Constance.
(d) Asks for the safe to be taken out.

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

5. What does Merricat fantasize about turning Charles into?
(a) A rat.
(b) A snake.
(c) A fox.
(d) A fly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Merricat's brother?

2. Where does Merricat find Jonas sleeping in Chapter 6?

3. What does Merricat break in Chapter 6?

4. Who killed the Blackwood family?

5. What do the village children grab during the mayhem in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What mistakes does Constance say she has made in Chapter 6?

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

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

4. What does Constance apologize to Merricat about at the end of Chapter 9?

5. What do Merricat and Constance say to each other when they are safe at Merricat's hiding place?

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

7. Why does Charles come back to the Blackwood house?

8. In Chapter 9, what does Merricat see and hear in the night from her hiding spot?

9. What finally gets the villagers to leave the Blackwoods' property?

10. After the fire, what does Merricat say are her new safeguards? Why does she think she needs new ones?

(see the answer keys)

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