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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Jordan say is one of Reverend Verringer’s chief faults?
(a) He has a lack of wit.
(b) He demands too much from his employees.
(c) He has little education.
(d) He knows nothing about the human brain.

2. What does Dr. Workman tell Dr. Jordan is most important in building an asylum?
(a) Sanitation and good drainage.
(b) Acquiring a number of wealthy patients.
(c) Having more nurses than doctors.
(d) Having the funds before beginning.

3. What is the name of the prison where Grace is an inmate?
(a) Riker Island.
(b) Kingston Penitentiary.
(c) Toronto Reformatory.
(d) Stratford Prison.

4. What does Jordan do in his first conversation with Grace in an attempt to get her to open up?
(a) Gives her a book.
(b) Gives her some opium.
(c) Brings her some scones.
(d) Talks mostly about himself.

5. How many siblings does Grace say she has?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

6. What happens to Mrs. Humphreys’s housekeeper?
(a) She dies.
(b) She moves to get married.
(c) She quits.
(d) Nothing.

7. Where does Grace say it was that she stopped sharing her thoughts?
(a) At the asylum.
(b) At home when she was a young child.
(c) At the prison.
(d) When working at Kinnear’s house.

8. What did Grace’s lawyer tell the court about her?
(a) She is more than one person.
(b) She is almost an idiot.
(c) She is insane.
(d) She is devious.

9. How does Mary die?
(a) She falls down the stairs.
(b) She drowns in the river.
(c) She dies in childbirth.
(d) From a botched abortion.

10. What does Grace say the peddler in her dream has of hers?
(a) A shawl.
(b) Her shoes.
(c) A hand.
(d) A knife.

11. What does Jordan see as the main difference between European and North American servants?
(a) The servants in Canada are better trained.
(b) The servants in Europe demand more money.
(c) The servants in Europe know their place.
(d) The servants in Europe are better dressed.

12. How old is Grace at the beginning of Alias Grace?
(a) 24.
(b) 20.
(c) 23.
(d) 21.

13. What do the two guards who escort Grace to the governor’s house say is the best alcoholic drink to make a woman want sex?
(a) Bourbon.
(b) Gin.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Tequila.

14. How does Mary Whitney’s father lose his farm?
(a) Flood.
(b) Burned to punish him for being a radical.
(c) Drought.
(d) Taken by the bank in foreclosure.

15. What relative in Ireland does Grace try to protect from being related to her?
(a) Her cousin, Connor.
(b) Her uncle, Seamus.
(c) Her aunt, Pauline.
(d) Her grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poem say is how Grace convinced McDermott to murder?

2. How is Jordan feeling about his research in Chapter 4?

3. Under what name does Grace register at the hotel?

4. What position did James McDermott hold at the Kinnear home?

5. What was Grace’s father’s trade?

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