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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) Making wine.
(c) Shoeing horses.
(d) Planting wheat.

2. What is the name of the man for whom the pirate works?
(a) Curry.
(b) Cutler.
(c) Culler.
(d) Clary.

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

4. 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.

5. What does Celia ultimately want for Julia?
(a) To have a home of her own one day.
(b) To become mistress of Wideacre.
(c) To share Wideacre with Richard.
(d) To go to school and not return.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does John accuse of betraying him as he is taken away?

2. What is thrown at the carriage taking Beatrice, Harry, John and Celia home from the feast?

3. What is the only thing that will rouse Beatrice from her bed during her depression?

4. Which of the following items is NOT found in the special room Beatrice creates for her sexual encounters with Harry?

5. Who does Beatrice tell John is the father of the child?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does the story end?

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

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

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

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

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