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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 mattress.
(b) The kitchen table.
(c) A pile of furniture on the porch.
(d) A fallen cieling beam.

2. In Chapter 9, how many more times did Helen Clarke come by the house?
(a) One more time.
(b) Seven more times.
(c) Two more times.
(d) Four more times.

3. What does Merricat tell Constance when she wakes up in Chapter 9?
(a) That they should bury some charms.
(b) That she is sorry for starting the fire.
(c) That they should go find Julian.
(d) That they are on the moon.

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

5. What does Merricat find against a bush in Chapter 9?
(a) Charles' watch.
(b) An unbroken figurine.
(c) The harp.
(d) Her cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Constance decide to plant where Julian used to sit?

2. Why does Constance say Helen cannot come for tea anymore?

3. What does Merricat admire at the beginning of Chapter 8?

4. In which room does Constance find nothing has been destroyed?

5. Who tells everyone at the house to stop taunting the girls?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What state is the kitchen in when the girls return home?

3. What act commences the villagers' attack on the Blackwoods' house?

4. What does Charles say he wants to go through in Chapter 6? How does Julian react?

5. What does Merricat imagine at the end of Chapter 7?

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 6, what does Merricat take from her father's room and why?

10. In Chapter 6, how does Merricat describe the way Charles has taken over her house?

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