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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 does Jordan ask the prison to do to make circumstances conducive to his research efforts?
(a) Keep her in a steady routine.
(b) Feed her more food than normal.
(c) Let her come and go as she pleases.
(d) Allow her paper and pen.

2. Why does the peddler give Grace one button more than she buys?
(a) She had an even number, which is bad luck.
(b) He thinks she is attractive.
(c) He only had one left so he would not be able to sell it.
(d) He wants her to become a good customer.

3. What is in the scrapbook the governor’s wife keeps?
(a) Recipes.
(b) Stories of criminals.
(c) Samples of material for sewing.
(d) Pictures of her children.

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

5. What does Jordan think he needs to do before he can open a private asylum?
(a) Come up with a great discovery in his field.
(b) Marry a wealthy woman.
(c) Sell off the family’s manor and lands.
(d) Build up his father’s mills.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of her first month wages did Grace give her father?

2. What does George do when Mary becomes pregnant?

3. Where does Grace work at the prison?

4. What kind of meeting is at the governor’s house on Tuesdays?

5. What does Grace say was her family’s religion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What document starts Chapter 2?

2. What does Grace say about her behavior where she is living?

3. What are the circumstances of Mrs. Humphreys’s life that are so difficult?

4. Why is Reverend Verringer meeting with Jordan and what does Jordan believe of the Reverend?

5. What is bothering Jordan in Chapter 4?

6. What does Grace talk about counting at the beginning of the Chapter and why does she change the way she counts?

7. Who brings Jordan his breakfast in the boarding house and what does Jordan think of the breakfast?

8. What is Jordan invited to join at the governor’s house and what does Lydia do before it starts?

9. What happens at the Parkinsons that changes both Mary and Grace’s circumstances?

10. How are hysterics defined at the beginning of Chapter 6?

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