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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one of Stella's favorite past-times?
(a) Stella's favorite past-time was walking the town with her husband.
(b) Stella enjoyed making new friends.
(c) Stella was an indefatigable gossip.
(d) Stella loved to speak ill of people.

2. Why does William call Cora a Solipsist?
(a) Because she is self-centered.
(b) Because she believes only in self-existence.
(c) Because she cannot imagine anyone doing anything that she would not.
(d) Will believes Cora is against anything she does not believe to be true.

3. Who does Michael Seaborne believe should raise his child?
(a) Cora.
(b) A nurse.
(c) A nanny.
(d) Tutors and nurses.

4. Why does Spencer read Cora's letters to Luke?
(a) Luke was not able to read Cora's handwriting and needed Spencer's help.
(b) Luke asked Spencer to interpret their meaning.
(c) Spencer wanted to know if Martha asked after him.
(d) Luke wanted Spencer's help in writing a response to each letter.

5. When the earthquake had hit Colchester, what did the neighboring town think had happened?
(a) The town of Maldon thought someone had set off dynamite.
(b) Others thought there was a building collapse that shook the ground.
(c) The other towns did not feel the earthquake that happened in Colchester.
(d) The neighboring town thought there was a tsunami.

6. What do the Ransomes have that made them unique?
(a) Goats, named Gog and Magog.
(b) Four children, two girls and two boys.
(c) Their very own Essex Serpent.
(d) Their own church.

7. What does William want to help John with at midnight?
(a) Go and kill the Essex Serpent.
(b) Kill the monster that lives under John's bead.
(c) Make sure that John is safe if he wakes up to go to the bathroom.
(d) Fed the fire.

8. What does Francis believe has happened to him during his visit to Colchester?
(a) Francis believes he is getting better.
(b) He believes his mother has stopped coddling him.
(c) He believes he has become an adult.
(d) Francis believes he is now dying.

9. How do Cora and William first meet?
(a) When Cora is out surveying the marshland for fossils.
(b) When Will is trying to help a goat that is stuck in a pond.
(c) During Michael Seaborne's funeral service.
(d) When they are introduced by the Ambroses.

10. When Cora and William meet, what do they realize together?
(a) They both had an immediate dislike for the other.
(b) Their friendship would be dangerous.
(c) Cora and William both immediately liked each other.
(d) Cora and William figure out each was the one that helped the sheep.

11. What does Cora do as the man she helps rescue the sheep just walks away?
(a) Cora laughs at the way he looks like a hunchback.
(b) Cora chides him for not thanking her for her help.
(c) Cora simply walks away because it is getting dark and she does not know which way she is going.
(d) Cora helps stitch up the man's face where the sheep kicked him.

12. What does William call "the Trouble"?
(a) The Essex Serpent.
(b) Stella's sickness.
(c) Cracknell.
(d) The Aldwinter oak.

13. Why does William ask Cora to use his name?
(a) William wants Cora to be a friend.
(b) William likes the nickname Will.
(c) Because "Mr. Ransome" sounds like his father.
(d) Will finds that Mr. Ransome is too formal.

14. What made Mary Anning take an interest in nature?
(a) Mary was prompted by the earthquake.
(b) A landslide killed Anning's dog.
(c) Mary Anning became a feminist.
(d) Anning found a fossil of an unidentified species.

15. Who does Spencer run into out on his walk about Colchester?
(a) Martha.
(b) Cora.
(c) The cripple, Thomas Taylor.
(d) The Ambroses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes to Cora after the Ambrose introduction?

2. Why does Cora think she is malformed?

3. Who showed up at the Ransome house during Cora's visit?

4. How does Luke get the child to stop crying on the train?

5. What shames Cora more than anything?

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