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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened to Katherine?
(a) She is ill with the plague.
(b) She is hallucinating.
(c) She has tried to kill herself a second time.
(d) She is pregnant.

2. What happens when Merivel tries to catch up with Piepold's relatives?
(a) His horse gets sick and refuses to move.
(b) His horse is too slow.
(c) His horse gets a lame foot.
(d) He is thrown off his horse.

3. What is written on the gate?
(a) A verse from the Bible.
(b) A note to Ambrose.
(c) A children's rhyme.
(d) A note to Merivel.

4. What news comes to Merivel and the King while they are talking?
(a) The river has flooded.
(b) A fire is raging through London.
(c) An outbreak of the plague has occurred.
(d) London Bridge has fallen.

5. Who helps Merivel make a rag doll for Katherine?
(a) Ambrose.
(b) Pearce.
(c) Eleanor.
(d) Hannah.

6. What game does the King make Merivel play with him when Merivel answers the King's summons?
(a) Polo.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Croquet.
(d) Chess.

7. How much does Merivel pay Finn for his portrait?
(a) Twenty shillings.
(b) Twelve shillings.
(c) Twenty-four shillings.
(d) Seven shillings.

8. What does Merivel name the baby?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Katherine.
(c) Celia.
(d) Hannah.

9. What happens to Katherine during the birth of the baby?
(a) She begins hallucinating.
(b) She goes into a coma.
(c) She realizes that she hates Merivel.
(d) She loses her sight.

10. What happens while Merivel is trying to cure Katherine?
(a) She dies.
(b) She passes out.
(c) She recovers.
(d) She leaves.

11. How are the most insane patients kept?
(a) Locked in small individual rooms.
(b) Tied to steel knobs in the wall.
(c) Chained to posts.
(d) Locked in a large room, free to interact.

12. Who does Merivel think about as he leaves with Katherine?
(a) Celia.
(b) Hannah.
(c) Violet.
(d) Rosie.

13. Why do the plague flagellants hit themselves?
(a) They want to feel their pain, not the pain of the city.
(b) The think it will cure the plague on the city by their sacrifice.
(c) They want to take the plague on themselves to cure others.
(d) They think it will stop them from becoming sick.

14. How long is Merivel confined to bed?
(a) One month.
(b) Three days.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Six weeks.

15. What does Ambrose tell Merivel?
(a) That he must leave Whittlesea.
(b) That he must begin working at manual labor in the grounds.
(c) That he must stop practicing medicine.
(d) That he must commit to become a Quaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in the house when Merivel emerges from his illness?

2. What do the female patients do for exercise?

3. What did the woman from Harvey die of?

4. What does Ambrose make Merivel do before passing through the gate?

5. What disease does Merivel come down with?

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