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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Micky get Tonio to offer him his job in Part 1, Chapter 4?
(a) He convinces Tonio that he is his friend.
(b) He blackmails Tonio.
(c) Tonio is afraid of what Micky can do to him.
(d) He gets Tonio to believe he will be sent back to Cordova.

2. What is the conversation about during tea in Part I, Chapter 5?
(a) The financial crisis.
(b) Hugh.
(c) Seth's health.
(d) Joseph's new appointment at the bank.

3. What system does Hugh come up with at the bank to organize papers?
(a) An input/output tray.
(b) Accounts receivable tray.
(c) A special paper tray.
(d) Filing.

4. Where does Hugh meet Nora?
(a) She stumbles into him on the street.
(b) In a bakery.
(c) At a club.
(d) At the Greenbourne's house.

5. Joseph promises Edward partnership at the bank when what happens?
(a) Edward brings in new accounts.
(b) Edward becomes friendly with Hugh.
(c) Edward marries.
(d) Edward stops hanging out with Micky.

6. What does Samuel think of the offer that Hugh made to Cammel?
(a) He fires Hugh for insubordination.
(b) He is angry at Hugh's taking charge.
(c) He admires Hugh's precociousness.
(d) He laughs about it and tells Hugh not to do it again.

7. In Part 1, Chapter 5, who has posted a message in Lloyd's Weekly News for Maisie?
(a) Her mother and father.
(b) Hugh.
(c) Solly.
(d) Danny, her brother.

8. In Part 1, Chapter 3, what "secret" does Samuel know that he says may come back to haunt Augusta?
(a) Joseph has been unfaithful.
(b) Joseph's work is not respected.
(c) Peter's brother, a lawyer, is making inquiries.
(d) Augusta has feelings for Micky.

9. In Part 1, Chapter 3, what job does Maisie find?
(a) She will sell horses in the park and be paid for showing them.
(b) She will ride horses in the park for entertainment.
(c) She will be a chamber maid.
(d) She will clean horse stables.

10. Why are the boys in detention in the Prologue of the book?
(a) They swam in the watering hole.
(b) They were boisterous in class.
(c) Someone stole money.
(d) One of them was insubordinate.

11. What is ratting?
(a) Rats fighting against rats.
(b) A dog fight against rats.
(c) Cock fighting.
(d) Cocks fighting against rats.

12. What does Solly ask Maisie at the races?
(a) Will she be his mistress?
(b) Will she marry him?
(c) Did she bet on her favorite horse?
(d) Does she like Hugh?

13. What sits at the top of the new Pilaster house?
(a) A stone ship.
(b) A bank.
(c) A diamond shaped gable.
(d) An angel.

14. Why does Maisie leave home in the Prologue?
(a) Her brother, Danny, runs away.
(b) She hates her father.
(c) She is hungry.
(d) She does not want her mother to starve for her.

15. What kind of a school is Windfield?
(a) A public school.
(b) A boarding school.
(c) A Jewish school.
(d) A Catholic school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Augusta pull out of her jewelry box in Part 2 to remind herself of the past?

2. In Part 2, Chapter 1, what does Augusta want for herself and Joseph that she manipulates to get?

3. What does Maisie eat with Bertie in the nursery?

4. What does Albert Cammel's letter to Hugh reveal?

5. To where does Danny run away in the Prologue?

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