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

2. Which of the following does NOT happen when the physicians come to take John away for treatment?
(a) He gets into the carriage willingly.
(b) He is given a dose of laudanum.
(c) He is put into a straight jacket.
(d) He tries to run away.

3. Who is the banker advising Beatrice and Harry in the matters of Wideacre?
(a) Mr. Levinson.
(b) Mr. Llewellyn.
(c) Mr. Legrand.
(d) Mr. Lewiston.

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

5. Who tells Beatrice that Mama has died?
(a) Celia.
(b) Ralph.
(c) John.
(d) Harry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is there no major Christmas party at the hall at Wideacre this year?

2. Why does John end up comforting Beatrice?

3. Which of the following is NOT a tool Harry and Beatrice use to come up with the money to buy out the entail?

4. What have the people of Wideacre called upon Beatrice to do again?

5. Beatrice wants the best for Wideacre but is ultimately destroying it in her zeal. What is this literary technique called?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John respond when he sees the newborn child?

2. How does Beatrice try to abort another child?

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

4. How does Beatrice justify the radical changes that are occurring at Wideacre?

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

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

7. How does the story end?

8. How does Beatrice ultimately handle the pregnancy?

9. What causes Mama to collapse in the library?

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

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