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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 the Englishman do with the photo at the end of "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook"?
(a) Tears it.
(b) Freezes it.
(c) Burns it.
(d) Mails it to the church.

2. Whose scrapbook does the caretaker, in "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook," show the Englishman?
(a) Canon Alberic de Mauleon.
(b) Canon Alberic de Sade.
(c) Canon Alberic Frank.
(d) Canon Alberic Maveric.

3. What does Mr. Anderson notice about the room number on his door after he goes to retrieve a book?
(a) It disappeared.
(b) It changed to 13.
(c) It changed to 12.
(d) It is upsidedown.

4. What does Mr. Somerton ask his friend to do when he arrives at the church?
(a) Take over his business.
(b) Put something back for him.
(c) Raise his child.
(d) Notify his next of kin.

5. In "The Mezzotint," what does Mr. Williams realize the painting is doing?
(a) Fading.
(b) Changing.
(c) Portraying the last supper.
(d) Decaying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the two men sitting and chatting in "A School Story"?

2. What is in the painting that Mr. Williams orders?

3. What is Mr. Garrett's occupation?

4. What does Mr. Somerton look at to find clues to the location of the Abbot's treasure?

5. What does Frank hear while standing near the rose garden?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mr. Anderson notice about the Number 13 while he is in town? What is the reason for this occurrence?

2. Describe the documents Mr. Anderson finds at the end of "Number 13." Where does he find them? What do they reveal? What does he do with them?

3. How does Dennistoun come across Canon Alberic's Scrapbook?

4. What does Parkins dream about the night he finds the metal object? What does the maid tell him the next day?

5. What happens when Dennistoun brings Canon Alberic's Scrapbook into his room at night? How does he get rid of it?

6. What is the Tractate Middoth?

7. Why does Collins try to warn Mrs. Anstruther not to plant her rose garden in the chosen location?

8. Why is Mr. Anderson in Jutland Viborg, in "Number 13"?

9. What does Dennistoun learn about the house in the painting, in "The Mezzotint"?

10. What does Mr. Somerton do for a living, and how does it lead him to the treasure of Abbot Thomas?

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