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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vinny want Isobel to get her?
(a) A recommendation for a job.
(b) A recipe from a neighbor.
(c) A better pair of shoes.
(d) Some money.

2. With what is Gordon having difficulty?
(a) Getting Charles to talk with him.
(b) Lighting the grill.
(c) Getting Isobel to get a job.
(d) Stopping from crying about his wife.

3. What happens to Lady Fairfax one day?
(a) A wolf attacks her.
(b) She went for a walk and disappeared.
(c) A cleric slaps her during one of her hysterical moments.
(d) A gypsy tells her fortune.

4. What does Richard Primrose do when he enters Isobel's room?
(a) Asks her to the prom.
(b) Gives her some information about her mother.
(c) Attacks her.
(d) Reads her part of a Shakespeare play.

5. What does Gordon tell Isobel about Eliza at the end of the chapter?
(a) That Eliza is in the United States and he was with her while he was gone.
(b) That he killed Eliza.
(c) That Charles has to start seeing a psychiatrist.
(d) That Isobel must claim the baby as her own.

6. What do Charles and Isobel find when they go into the woods to look for their parents?
(a) A puppy.
(b) Their mother who is either dead or unconscious.
(c) Their aunt who is very ill.
(d) No one.

7. For how long does Gordon disappear after his wife is gone?
(a) 7 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 10 years.

8. How many photographs do Isobel and Charles have of their mother?
(a) They each have several.
(b) Numerous.
(c) 0.
(d) 1 each.

9. What is Mr. Primrose wearing when Isobel spies him?
(a) A fedora hat.
(b) A swim suit.
(c) A dress.
(d) A pair of cowboy boots with a tuxedo.

10. What is the date of the setting of the novel?
(a) 1745.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1860.

11. What does Vinny make no effort to conceal?
(a) Her alcohol consumption.
(b) Her dislike of Eliza.
(c) Her dislike of Isobel.
(d) Her out-of-wedlock pregnancy.

12. Who does Charles want to see when he wakes?
(a) Charlotte.
(b) Eliza.
(c) Isobel.
(d) Gordon.

13. What does Isobel notice about Aubrey one day?
(a) She has a bad cough.
(b) She has changed the color of her lipstick.
(c) She has grown a couple inches.
(d) She seems to be gaining weight.

14. Where do Malcolm and Isobel visit?
(a) An amphitheater in the city park.
(b) Malcolm's grandmother in a nursing home.
(c) A park outside of the town.
(d) Malcolm's mother in the hospital.

15. What occurs in Fairfax Manor in 1582?
(a) He is elected mayor.
(b) A fire destroys the manor.
(c) The Queen visits.
(d) Nothing, as it is not yet built.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is Debbie obsessed when Isobel arrives home?

2. What does Debbie have a history of?

3. When Isobel hears the supposed name of Debbie's illness, what does she wonder?

4. What does Charlotte tell the children about their father?

5. Who claims to be the mother of the baby?

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