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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 job does Beatrice offer the town's workers who refuse to do it?
(a) Fencing in the Common.
(b) Planting wheat.
(c) Making wine.
(d) Shoeing horses.

2. Which of the following does NOT happen after Beatrice tells John her distress at being merely a visitor at Wideacre?
(a) He tells her to get her own place.
(b) He comforts her.
(c) He proposes to her.
(d) They make love.

3. Why does John take a trip before the baby is born?
(a) To buy medical supplies.
(b) To buy horses.
(c) To visit his father.
(d) To check on patients.

4. What does Beatrice know that Ralph plans to do?
(a) Burn her house.
(b) Kidnap her children.
(c) Hang himself.
(d) Come back for her.

5. What is Beatrice's new baby named?
(a) Richard.
(b) Robert.
(c) Reginald.
(d) Rowan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the London wheat buyer who buys Wideacre's wheat harvest?

2. Where is Beatrice when the mob approaches the house?

3. Which of the following activities do the people of Wideacre NOT use the common grounds?

4. What do the people call the area of the cemetery where suicides are buried?

5. Why does Beatrice tell Harry he will never be without her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What foreshadowing does the author create to indicate the imminent fate of Wideacre and its inhabitants?

2. How does Beatrice manage to keep John away from home until she completes the purchase of the entail?

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

4. How does the story end?

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

6. Explain Beatrice's perspective on love.

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

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

9. How does Beatrice ultimately handle the pregnancy?

10. What is revealed about the characters in the Epilogue?

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