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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 is the table covered in one morning when Isobel goes downstairs?
(a) Receipts.
(b) Raw meat.
(c) Maps.
(d) Lottery tickets.

2. Who is Debbie?
(a) One of the neighbors.
(b) Gordon's second wife.
(c) One of Isobel's children.
(d) Gordon's sister.

3. What does Mr. Baxter retire?
(a) He is at the retirement age.
(b) He does not retire.
(c) He is ill.
(d) He has injuried a young boy.

4. Where does Gordon meet Eliza?
(a) When he is imprisoned in Germany in WWII.
(b) When he rescues her from a bombed building.
(c) When he goes to a polo match after WWII.
(d) At the opera.

5. How do girls find Isobel's brother?
(a) Handsome.
(b) Not attractive.
(c) Boorish.
(d) Witty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gordon's position in WWII?

2. Why is Mr. Rice in trouble with Debbie?

3. How many photographs do Isobel and Charles have of their mother?

4. For how long have historians searched for the Fairfax jewel?

5. What is the date of the setting of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the neighbors think of the new baby in the Fairfax household?

2. What does Isobel think she sees Mr. Rice doing and what is the outcome?

3. What are the signs that Vinny is a poor caregiver for the children?

4. How do Charlotte and Vinny treat Eliza and what is her response?

5. What does Isobel, the narrator at the beginning of the novel, discuss in the first part of the novel?

6. What does Isobel "see" in the time wrap she experiences in this chapter?

7. What leads to Isobel's house being infested with fleas?

8. What does Francis Fairfax give his new wife and what happens to the present?

9. What does Isobel say are Charles' hobbies, and how does he relate one of his hobbies to his mother?

10. Describe the interaction between Gordon and his two young children after Gordon returns from the woods.

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