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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 Julian fret about while the house is burning?
(a) Having to go out in the cold.
(b) His papers.
(c) His suits.
(d) His wheelchair getting muddy.

2. Where do Merricat and Constance sweep the rubble to?
(a) The back porch.
(b) The drawing room.
(c) The dining room.
(d) The cellar.

3. What does Constance think Julian would have been buried in?
(a) Clothes from a charity shop.
(b) His robe.
(c) Nothing.
(d) One of Jim Clarke's old suits.

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

5. What was the name of Merricat's brother?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Gordon.
(c) Terrence.
(d) Edward.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Merricat break in Chapter 6?

2. Which of the following supplies did the villagers ruin?

3. Why hasn't Merricat buried anything around the summerhouse?

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

5. To what does Merricat compare her house, now that it is burned and damaged?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How do the villagers show kindness in Chapter 10?

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

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