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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Sue returned to the soft room?
(a) because she asks for privacy
(b) because the hates the t.v. shows being shown in the common room
(c) because she keeps hitting other patients
(d) because she is still insisting that she is not Maud

2. What does Mr. Hawtrey do when Maud appears in his store?
(a) he has the police arrest her for trespassing
(b) he contacts Mr. Lilly
(c) he introduces Maud to his wife and daughters
(d) he hires a coach to take her to a place where she can eat and sleep

3. What does Sue think Maud's uncle is doing?
(a) writing a novel about the queen
(b) keeping account books for the Duke
(c) compiling a dictionary
(d) making a map of the known world

4. To whom does Mr. Hawtrey compare Maud?
(a) Helen of Troy
(b) Clarissa
(c) Queen Elizabeth I
(d) Galatea, a nymph sculpted in marble

5. Who does Sue see through the upper story window in Mrs. Sucksby's house?
(a) Mrs. Sucksby and Maud
(b) Mr. Lilly
(c) Richard
(d) John Vromm

6. What foreshadowing happens when Maud gives Sue one of her dresses?
(a) a maid mistakes Sue for Maud
(b) Sue acts insane and slaps the maid for insolence
(c) Maud kisses Sue passionately
(d) Sue thinks of Maud's insane mother

7. What does Maud want to do when Sue is in the bed next to her?
(a) smother Sue with her pillow
(b) reach out and touch Sue
(c) confess the plan to Sue
(d) scream and yell that Sue is raping her

8. How does Maud get Sue to make love to Maud?
(a) threatens to fire Sue
(b) offers her 20 pounds to do so
(c) initiates a conversation designed to motivate Sue to do so
(d) tells Sue that Richard wants to watch them doing so

9. What is the implication of Mrs. Sucksby saying, "my own dear girl."
(a) that Mrs. Sucksby is trying to calm Maud and be a substitute mother
(b) that Mrs. Sucksby is blind and thinks Maud is Sue
(c) that Mrs. Sucksby plans to adopt Maud
(d) that Maud is Mrs. Sucksby's biological daughter

10. What is Agnes' parting admonishment to Maud?
(a) to remember to wash her gloves every night
(b) to be careful when riding her horse
(c) that Maud will not be able to abuse Richard as easily as Maud abused Agnes
(d) to say her prayers and include Agnes in them

11. When does Maud clearly remember the trip?
(a) when Sue slaps her to stop her hysteria
(b) when Sue is readying her for her marriage bed
(c) when they board the boat
(d) when they arrive at the country church

12. How does Richard get Maud into the gardens?
(a) by promising her a kiss
(b) by saying it's time for Maud to paint nature
(c) by helping her climb down the trellis
(d) by asking permission of Mr. Lilly

13. What does Sue pawn to get money to rent a place across the street from Mrs. Sucksby's house?
(a) Maud's glove
(b) Charles' coat
(c) a ruby ring she stole from a nurse
(d) her diamond brooch

14. Where is Sue sent because of her struggles against the orderlies?
(a) the common room
(b) home to Mrs. Sucksby
(c) the soft room
(d) back to Mr. Lilly

15. What does Sue find on the floor of the soft room?
(a) money
(b) a knife to kill herself with
(c) a black widow spider
(d) one of Maud's gloves

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles bring Sue the next week?

2. What happens to Maud's diamond brooch?

3. How does Richard realize that Maud is falling in love with Sue?

4. Who finally greets Maud and Richard and dropping Sue off at the asylum?

5. To whom does Marianne Lilly leave her fortune?

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