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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 kind of flowers are growing out of the gravel at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Lilies.
(b) Roses.
(c) Petunias.
(d) Peonies.

2. What year is it at the beginning of Alias Grace?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1851.

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

4. What does Grace tell Jordan she will finish that day when she meets with him at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Her fifteenth year in prison.
(b) The quilt square in her hand.
(c) Cleaning the downstairs of the house.
(d) The cloak she is making her sister.

5. What was Grace’s father’s trade?
(a) Stonemason.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Soldier
(d) Horse trainer.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age does Grace go to prison?

2. What does Lydia do when Jordan comes to the governor’s home?

3. How old is Grace at the beginning of Alias Grace?

4. Where does the governor’s oldest daughter live?

5. What is in the scrapbook the governor’s wife keeps?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who narrates Chapter 1 and what does she say about her present circumstances as to where she is, how old she is and what year it is?

5. To whom does Mrs. Burt introduce Grace and what position does that woman hold? How does the woman help Grace?

6. How does Jordan describe Grace in his letter at the end of the Chapter?

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

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

9. What is bothering Jordan in Chapter 4?

10. What does Grace say about her family in her confession at the beginning of Chapter 5?

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