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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 does Dr. Montague warn Eleanor not to talk about if she stops in Hillsdale?

2. What words come to Eleanor's mind when she sees Hill House?

3. What does Eleanor think would infuriate her mother?

4. How does Theo introduce herself?

5. What emotion does Theo detect in Eleanor?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dr. Montague treat Luke Sanderson?

2. Who is Eleanor Vance? Why is she chosen for Dr. Montague's project?

3. Who built Hill House?

4. What does Dr. Montague say he expects of his assistants during the summer?

5. What did Eleanor purchase specifically for this trip to Hill House?

6. Who is Dr. Montague?

7. How does Luke act when he meets Eleanor and Theo?

8. How is the interior of Hill House designed?

9. Who is Luke Sanderson?

10. Who is Theodora?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who are the Sandersons? How did they come to own Hill House? Why do they not live in the house? Who has lived in the house over the past several years? What happened to those people?

Essay Topic 2

What book does Luke find in the library that frightens him? What is the intention of this book? What is significant about the pictures in the book? What is significant about the signature in the book? What does all this say about the person who wrote the book?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Theo? Why does Theo accept Dr. Montague's invitation to Hill House? Why does Dr. Montague invite her? What is significant about Theo's home life? How does this impact the reader's impression of Theo?

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