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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. White feel about the visitor hanging around after Herbert leaves?
(a) He is suspicious.
(b) He is nervous.
(c) He is excited.
(d) He is angry.

2. Who has a hard time understanding what happened to Herbert?
(a) The visitor.
(b) Mrs. White.
(c) Mr. White.
(d) Morris.

3. Who refuses responsibility for Herbert's injury?
(a) The company.
(b) The visitor.
(c) The government.
(d) All of these.

4. How many children does Morris have?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 0.
(d) 2.

5. What does the visitor think injured Herbert?
(a) The machinery.
(b) The monkey paw.
(c) All of these.
(d) The wish.

6. Who comforts Mrs. White after the visitor leaves?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her maid.
(c) Her husband.
(d) None of these.

7. How does Mrs. White feel about the wish the morning after?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Hopeful.
(c) Silly.
(d) Amazed.

8. For what kind of company is the visitor working?
(a) Law related.
(b) Real estate.
(c) Investigatory.
(d) Industrial.

9. How is the visitor dressed?
(a) In rags.
(b) Casually.
(c) None of these.
(d) Nicely.

10. What is the weather like the morning after the wish is made?
(a) Sunny.
(b) Windy.
(c) Snowy.
(d) Rainy.

11. Where is the visitor from?
(a) Meg and Mawlins.
(b) Merk and Mergins.
(c) Maw and Meggins.
(d) Mer and Merkins.

12. What does Herbert joke about the morning after the wish?
(a) Quitting his job.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Travelling to India.
(d) Their coming wealth.

13. How does the visitor seem in the White's home?
(a) Uncomfortable.
(b) Hurried.
(c) Upset.
(d) Idle.

14. What does Herbert work with at his job?
(a) Paperwork.
(b) Food.
(c) Machines.
(d) Weapons.

15. Why is the gift from the visitor so ironic?
(a) It meets Morris's demands.
(b) It is beyond what they hoped.
(c) It is what their son wanted.
(d) It is the same amount they wished for.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Herbert's injury described?

2. What did Mr. White interfere with when he made a wish?

3. Who is the first to understand the true cause of Herbert's injury?

4. What does Mr. White think injured his son?

5. What injured Herbert?

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