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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 McDermott say should be done to Kinnear and Nancy when McDermott is drunk?
(a) They should be knocked over the head and thrown in the cellar.
(b) They should have their gold stolen.
(c) The house should be burned down around them.
(d) Someone should poison their food.

2. What does Grace say to McDermott when he is sitting on the front porch staring vacantly?
(a) Do you need to sleep?
(b) Wake up.
(c) Be a man.
(d) What are you thinking about?

3. What happens one night that changes Dr. Jordan and Mrs. Humphreys’s relationship?
(a) Her husband returns.
(b) Dr. Jordan gets involved with a bar maid.
(c) She crawls in his bed one night.
(d) She hires another maid.

4. What does the prison do to a woman if there are too many marks against her?
(a) Lash her.
(b) Cut off her hair.
(c) Assign her to chamber pots.
(d) Feed her only bread and water.

5. What does Grace tell Dr. Jordan about her dream in the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) She says she does not remember her dream.
(b) She heard McDermott crying.
(c) She saw red flowers.
(d) She saw Mary Whitney.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grace do in the morning at the governor’s house at the beginning of Chapter 8?

2. What does Nancy call McDermott when she tells him to go take care of Kinnear’s horse?

3. What does McDermott tell Jamie is the reason that McDermott has the shotgun in his hands?

4. What is the name of the horse Mr. Kinnear drives to pick Grace up when she arrives in Richmond Hill?

5. Why does Grace call McDermott a monkey?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dr. Jordan decide to do about Mrs. Humphreys and what does he decide to do after that?

2. What does Dr. Jordan say McDermott said about the murders and what is Grace’s response?

3. What does Nancy tell McDermott when she is tired of his attitude and what does McDermott then tell Grace?

4. What does Grace tell Dr. Jordan that McDermott told her and what does she offer as a reason she had not told Nancy?

5. Where does McDermott kill Nancy and what does Grace say he says to Grace?

6. What does Jerome Dupont ask Dr. Jordan and what does Grace realize about Dupont?

7. Why is Grace worried about coming to the end of her story?

8. What does McDermott say to Grace when he comes in her room after she wakes?

9. What happens when the governor’s wife calls Grace by name when she is with Dr. Dupont and Dr. Jordan?

10. What does Grace say McDermott says about what he thinks Nancy and Kinnear deserve?

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