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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. Where do John and Beatrice live after their wedding?
(a) At John's home.
(b) At Wideacre.
(c) In Dublin.
(d) In a country cottage.

2. What happens at the moment that Beatrice is killed?
(a) Lightning strikes.
(b) The dogs howl.
(c) A hawk flies overhead.
(d) A bell chimes.

3. What is Beatrice's second attempt to abort the child?
(a) Intentional falls.
(b) Poisonous herbs.
(c) Beating her abdomen.
(d) Primitive surgery.

4. What is Ralph doing when Beatrice walks out of the house?
(a) Sitting on the ground.
(b) Sitting in a wagon.
(c) Sitting on a horse.
(d) Sitting in a carriage.

5. What does Ralph send Beatrice for her birthday?
(a) Flowers.
(b) A basket with a tinderbox inside.
(c) Perfume.
(d) Antique books.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does NOT happen when the physicians come to take John away for treatment?

2. How does Beatrice stage a premature birth?

3. What/who does Beatrice see at the window when lightning lights up the sky?

4. What eventually kills Mama?

5. Who is the doctor who helps people recover from alcohol addiction?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Beatrice reinforce her ploy to have John sent away by planting a bottle of liquor in his room?

2. Describe the scene in which John is taken away by the doctors to begin his alcohol addiction treatment.

3. How has the wheat harvest changed now that Beatrice is in control?

4. How does Beatrice try to explain the "early" birth of her child?

5. How does Beatrice know that Ralph is getting closer to returning to Wideacre?

6. What causes Mama to collapse in the library?

7. Why does Celia reject Beatrice's plan for Julia's inheritance of Wideacre?

8. What does John confront Beatrice on when he returns home?

9. How does Beatrice manipulate Harry into a plan to buy out the entail on Wideacre so that Julia and Richard will one day inherit the estate?

10. How does Beatrice deceive Celia into thinking that Wideacre has fallen on hard times?

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