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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. Which of the following animals do the Otises NOT see as they drive to their new house?
(a) Rabbits.
(b) Birds.
(c) Squirrels.
(d) Owls.

2. Who tells Mr. Otis not to buy the house at the beginning of the book?
(a) His friends.
(b) His parents.
(c) His wife.
(d) His children.

3. What does the family begin to believe after the strange thing in the library keeps reappearing?
(a) The postman is delivering mail to the wrong place.
(b) Mrs. Umney is playing a trick on them.
(c) There might be a ghost.
(d) There is a hole in the roof.

4. What does the ghost consider himself?
(a) An artist.
(b) A housekeeper.
(c) An anomoly.
(d) A piece of history.

5. What is the name of Mr. Otis's only daughter?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Vanessa.
(c) Violet.
(d) Victoria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the author use to describe how the ghost looks?

2. What is Mr. Otis's oldest son good at doing?

3. What is Mr. Otis's daughter doing when she is proposed to?

4. Where is Mr. Otis from?

5. Where is the house that Mr. Otis buys at the beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes Mrs. Umney to faint?

2. What does Mrs. Umney say when she wakes from her faint?

3. When does Lord Canterville say the ghost appears? What is Mr. Otis's response to this?

4. How is the ghost maintaining the bloodstain in the library?

5. What happens when the ghost is about to begin his plan to scare Washington on Friday?

6. What does the ghost say is the hardest part about being a ghost?

7. What does the Otis family talk about at dinner after they admit that the ghost is real?

8. What happens when the ghost attempts to get back at the twins for the pranks they pull after the failed Friday night?

9. What does Lord Canterville say might happen if he takes the jewels from Virginia?

10. What happens as the Otises drive up to their new house at the beginning of the book?

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