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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Afterward".
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When Mary and Ned see the man coming toward the hosue in October, what does Mary assume?
(a) It is a friend of Timmle's.
(b) It is one of their workmen.
(c) It is their cousin Hugo.
(d) It is the ghost.
2. To what do Mary and Ned attribute the great beauty they see in England?
(a) Its history.
(b) Their own hatred for the American Midwest.
(c) New places always seem attractive at first.
(d) Its small size.
3. What does Mary learn about the Blue Star Mine deal from her visitor in section "V"?
(a) It was not nearly as lucrative a deal as Ned pretended.
(b) Ned committed a crime in order to make the deal.
(c) Ned's actions caused the mine to go bankrupt.
(d) Ned cheated Bob Elwell in order to make more money from it.
4. On page 95, Mary mentions the "fun of the frisson." What is a frisson?
(a) A teasing remark.
(b) A frightening story.
(c) A sensation of chills or prickling down one's back.
(d) The feeling of "butterflies" in one's stomach.
5. When Ned is still gone by the time Mary finishes lunch, where does she decide he must be?
(a) She decides that he must have walked the visitor back to the train station.
(b) She decides that he must have gone for his afternoon walk a little early.
(c) She decides that he must have gone into town to run an errand.
(d) She decides that he has finally left her.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Mary, startled by the envelope's contents, cries out and rises to her feet, how does Ned react?
2. When Mary is waiting in the library at the beginning of the story, where is Ned?
3. What did Mary and Ned discover about their roof?
4. When they are all laughing about the idea of a ghost, what does it mean that Mary "noted a certain flatness of tone in Alida's answering hilarity" (83)?
5. What have Mary's new neighbors told her about the ghost?
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