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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 animals does Mrs. Swithin reason have faith?
(a) Birds.
(b) Horses.
(c) Fish.
(d) Dogs.
2. Who does Budge's character NOT claim to have seen?
(a) The Queen of England.
(b) The Sultan of Morocco.
(c) The Czar of Russia.
(d) The Shah of Persia.
3. Around what year is the scene featuring Edgar and Eleanor set?
(a) 1830.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1860.
4. What is the character, Eleanor's, surname?
(a) Hardcastle.
(b) Handley.
(c) Heath.
(d) Harrington.
5. How does nature interfere with the act which follows "A Picnic Party"?
(a) A dog chases a fox through the audience.
(b) It begins to rain.
(c) Birds swoop down at the audience.
(d) Wind blows the set dressings down.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are Edgar and Eleanor both dedicated to?
2. What is Lady Harraden's second scheme to get Flavinda's father's wealth?
3. Who does Isa follow back from the stable yard?
4. What noise does the machine in the bushes make?
5. How does Mrs. Mayhew expect the pageant will end?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Giles wonder about Isa when he sees her in the barn?
2. Where does Miss La Trobe go after the pageant?
3. How is the stage set for "A Picnic Party"?
4. How is the third section of "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" conveyed to the audience? What amused the audience during this dead moment in the program?
5. What does the narrator predict will happen between Giles and Isa at the end of the novel?
6. What did Miss La Trobe hope to start the "Ourselves" section of the pageant with?
7. What is used to set the stage for the "Ourselves" section of the pageant?
8. What does Reverend Streatfield ask the audience for at the end of the pageant? What interrupts him?
9. What role does Budge play in the pageant, and what does he explain to the audience?
10. When Mrs. Swithin suggests thanking Miss La Trobe after the pageant is over, what does Mr. Oliver explain?
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