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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 John determine upon inspecting the baby?
(a) The name Richard suits him well.
(b) He looks just like Beatrice.
(c) He looks just like his father.
(d) The baby cannot be his child.

2. Why does Beatrice tell Dr. Rose to keep John a little bit longer even though he is well enough to come home?
(a) Celia is ill.
(b) There is influenza at home.
(c) She is planning a surprise party for him.
(d) She is renovating his room.

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

4. What tragedy does Beatrice have to face at home?
(a) Richard is seriously ill.
(b) Bankruptcy.
(c) Harry has cancer.
(d) John wants a divorce.

5. Beatrice knows that the Culler is really ______________.
(a) Ira.
(b) Morgan.
(c) Harry.
(d) Ralph.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much medicine does Beatrice tell Celia to give Mama at a certain time?

2. Whose presence does Beatrice now feel near her?

3. Why does Beatrice ride her horse recklessly during hunting season?

4. Which of the following does John NOT do when he returns home?

5. What does John prescribe for Mama's condition?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Beatrice alter events so that John is blamed for Mama's death?

4. How does Beatrice react to Richard's brush with death and how is she perceived to be shallow in her concerns?

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

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

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

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

9. What causes Mama to collapse in the library?

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

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