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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Englishman who visits S. Bertrand Church?

2. What do the boys see the night before school master Sampson disappears?

3. What does Parkins not believe in?

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

5. Who is buried at the location of the rose garden?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mr. Wraxall learn about Count Magnus?

2. How does Mr. Anderson's room change, in "Number 13"?

3. What painting does Mr. Williams think Dennistoun would like, in "The Mezzotint"? What does Dennistoun think of the painting?

4. 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?

5. What is the Tractate Middoth?

6. Describe how the painting changes, in "The Mezzotint"?

7. Where does Dennistoun lock the painting away? What does Mr. Dennistoun's servant see in the painting?

8. Why does Parkins get rid of the metal object he finds, in "Oh Whistle, and I'll come to You, My Lad"? How does he get rid of it?

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

10. What the city of Chorazin, and how does Mr. Wraxall learn about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of the solitary traveler in James' books? Use two stories that use this character and how it relates to the plot.

Essay Topic 2

How does the setting effect the reader's experience of the story? Does it matter that the story is set in another country? Describe the setting of the story of you choice and explain how it is intertwined with the plot.

Essay Topic 3

What roles do villains play in James' stories. Choose two stories from James' collection and discuss how the villain interacts with the other characters. Is the villain always the ghost?

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