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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Arnette bring to the Convent after her wedding?
(a) Her ruined dress.
(b) A gun.
(c) Wedding cake.
(d) Leftover flowers.

2. How does Patricia feel about the views she believes Richard is teaching to the young people?
(a) She does not approve.
(b) Skeptical but willing to help.
(c) She is full of admiration.
(d) Enthusiastic.

3. What did Deek buy when he first came to Connie?
(a) Wine.
(b) Religious artifacts.
(c) Papal indulgences.
(d) Peppers.

4. What does Connie realize about Pallas before even Pallas knows?
(a) Pallas wants to kill Connie.
(b) Pallas has smallpox.
(c) Pallas will rule the Convent.
(d) Pallas is pregnant.

5. What does the box Gigi finds under the bathtub contain?
(a) The key to the sub-basement.
(b) Assorted bolts and screws.
(c) A pistol.
(d) Worthless old banknotes.

6. Who raised Lone DuPres?
(a) Connie.
(b) Patricia.
(c) Fairy DuPres.
(d) K.D.

7. Why is Richard concerned about Billie?
(a) She seems to be involved in a dispute among the Poole family.
(b) She is a suspect in the robbery.
(c) Her name came up in a recent police investigation.
(d) She was last seen with a known criminal.

8. What was the name of the woman who took care of Lone after Lone's mother died?
(a) Mavis Albright.
(b) Mary Magna.
(c) Fairy DuPres.
(d) Consolata.

9. What does Lone do after hearing the men plotting?
(a) She calls the newspaper city desk editor.
(b) She drives to the Convent to warn the women.
(c) She directly confronts the men.
(d) She decides to tell no one.

10. Who is Arnette's maid of honor?
(a) Seneca.
(b) Pallas Truelove.
(c) Billie Delia.
(d) Gigi.

11. How old was Connie when the man finally came to her?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Thirty-three.
(d) Sixteen.

12. How does Lone feel about the young couples' tendency to go to hospitals to deliver their babies?
(a) Indifferent so long as she receives her tax refund on time.
(b) Rejected.
(c) Elated.
(d) Relieved that they are finally taking medical care seriously.

13. What is one possible reason that Menus drinks too much?
(a) Connie gives him free wine.
(b) He enjoys upsetting everyone.
(c) He feels bad for abandoning the woman.
(d) It is the only way he can control the pain of his injured leg.

14. In what conditions did the nuns find Consolata?
(a) She was an aspiring model and developing an eating disorder.
(b) She had applied and been rejected by another convent.
(c) She was destitute and living on the streets.
(d) She was having the time in her life working in a carnival sideshow.

15. Why does Lone believe that the women of the Convent could not possibly be responsible for the handicaps of the Fleetwood children?
(a) Lone believes that the women of the Convent are perfect and can do no wrong.
(b) The cancerous growths of the children are from uranium, and the women of the convent do not have access to uranium.
(c) Lone knows that she alone is responsible.
(d) The first of the children were born before the women arrived at the Convent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Pallas believe she should contact?

2. How old was the man when he finally came to Connie?

3. Where does Connie spend an increasing amount of time?

4. What was Lone gathering when she overheard the men plotting?

5. What in the basement attracts Connie?

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