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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. According to Francis at the end of Chapter 22, what is Howard about to do?
(a) Migrate into Virgil.
(b) Migrate into Noemí.
(c) Migrate into Catalina.
(d) Migrate into Francis.

2. How does Francis describe Howard in Chapter 16?
(a) As a villain.
(b) As a monster.
(c) As the devil.
(d) As misunderstood.

3. In Chapter 22, Noemí is forced to write a letter to whom?
(a) The magistrate.
(b) Francis.
(c) Her father.
(d) Hugo.

4. What is inside the box Howard gives to Noemí and Francis in Chapter 24?
(a) Two pieces of green mushroom.
(b) Two pieces of yellow mushroom.
(c) Two pieces of red mushroom.
(d) Two pieces of brown mushroom.

5. What apparently causes Catalina to convulse in Chapter 13?
(a) Dinner.
(b) Marta’s tincture.
(c) Noemí's cigarette.
(d) The moldy wallpaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word is inscribed on the statue of Agnes, as Noemí discovers in Chapter 14?

2. What erupts from the ceiling as Noemí is bathing in Chapter 17?

3. Against what does Noemí caution herself in Chapter 16?

4. According to Virgil in Chapter 15, how did Catalina first see him?

5. What words are uttered by the man in Noemí’s dream in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Virgil react to Catalina’s situation at the end of Chapter 13? What promise does Noemí make?

2. What happens to Noemí while she is bathing in Chapter 17?

3. What happens when Noemí attempts to escape High Place at the start of Chapter 21?

4. Why do Francis and Noemí argue in Chapter 23?

5. Who appears to have written the diary entry Noemí reads in Chapter 16? What does it say, and how does Noemí react to it?

6. What strange inscription does Noemí notice in the cemetery at the start of Chapter 14? Why is this inscription strange?

7. How does Howard appear in Chapter 19? What is Noemí forced to do?

8. Why is Virgil angry with Noemí in Chapter 15?

9. According to Virgil in Chapter 15, why did he marry Catalina? Why did Catalina marry him?

10. What is Noemí’s theory regarding the origins of ghosts, as she muses in Chapter 17? How does Francis react to her theory?

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