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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. Why are the people of Wideacre suffering this winter?
(a) Influenza is running rampant.
(b) The plague is killing many people.
(c) There are no winter jobs at Wideacre.
(d) War has broken out.

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

3. Why do the people at the feast eat so little food?
(a) They don't like the food selections.
(b) Hardly anyone shows up.
(c) They would rather drink.
(d) Their bellies are shrunken from starvation.

4. How does Richard almost die when out with Beatrice one day?
(a) He swallows a bell from his rattle.
(b) His carriage is struck by lightning.
(c) He is stung by wasps.
(d) He falls from his horse.

5. Why is Beatrice so conflicted about the changes that must occur at Wideacre?
(a) She is not sure she wants to give Wideacre to her children.
(b) She thinks about killing Harry.
(c) The income is vital but she doesn't like the changes to her home.
(d) She hopes that Harry will change his will.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Beatrice tell Dr. Rose to keep John a little bit longer even though he is well enough to come home?

2. What makes it easy for Beatrice and Harry to continue their midnight trysts?

3. What does Beatrice think needs to happen so that things can return to normal at Wideacre?

4. What is typically placed on top of the final shock of wheat?

5. What does John determine upon inspecting the baby?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Explain how the impending storm is a metaphor for Beatrice's death?

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

7. What does Beatrice tell Celia to coerce her to support John's being sent away for alcohol abuse treatment?

8. What is the tradition of the wheat doll on the last day of the harvest?

9. How does the story end?

10. What inadvertently happens to restore John's reputation as a doctor?

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