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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Emily Clough dying of?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Fatigue.
(c) The plague.
(d) Consumption.

2. Where do Keach and Birkin go after discussing Birkin's request to use something in the church?
(a) To the graveyard.
(b) To see his workspace.
(c) Out to the garden.
(d) To see the object.

3. What type of coat is Thomas Birkin wearing when he arrives in town?
(a) A jean jacket.
(b) A soldier's jacket.
(c) A pre-war herringbone tweed.
(d) A black, ankle-length peacoat.

4. How old does Birkin tell Keach he thinks the wall painting is?
(a) 100 years.
(b) He says he doesn't know.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 200 years.

5. In what city does "A Month in the Country" open?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Oxford.
(c) London.
(d) Oxgodby.

6. What kind of painting does Birkin think the painting is bound to be?
(a) Ruined.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Renaissance.
(d) Judgment.

7. Who is Mr. Dowthwaite?
(a) The superintendent of the Sunday School.
(b) The pastor at the Ellerbeck's church.
(c) Kathy's father.
(d) The teacher at the local schoolhouse.

8. Where does Birkin plan to return for the winter?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Edinburgh.

9. How is Birkin's background described in Section 1?
(a) As broken and sad.
(b) As ruined by the war.
(c) As coming from a wealthy family.
(d) It is not.

10. After examining the placement of the painting, what does Birkin decide is his aim?
(a) To make the painting look right.
(b) To return the painting to its original state.
(c) To destroy the painting.
(d) To recover the painting.

11. How does Birkin feel about the painting although he cannot see it?
(a) It is there.
(b) It is ugly.
(c) It is destroyed.
(d) It is unique.

12. Who does not want Birkin working on the painting in the church?
(a) Keach.
(b) Miss Hebron.
(c) The church.
(d) Charles Moon.

13. The woman in the wall monument is described as "modestly hiding her essential _________ by hanging on tight to a shroud as she clambered from an elegant catagalgue".
(a) Faith.
(b) Glory.
(c) Modesty.
(d) Purity.

14. What does Birkin do the first morning he wakes up in the church?
(a) Pries open the windows.
(b) Organizes his supplies.
(c) Unpacks his food.
(d) Breaks his leg.

15. Who argues that it is an outrage that someone as beautiful as Alice is married to Keach?
(a) Richard.
(b) Birkin.
(c) Moon.
(d) Kathy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who offers Thomas Birkin an umbrella when he arrives in town?

2. What does Emily Clough want to get with the S's and stars she has collected?

3. What are the "dafties" in Sunday School that Birkin is supposed to help out?

4. What does Alice show Birkin on his way out after he visits their home to ask for his first installment?

5. How is the church at which Thomas Birkin arrives described?

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