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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. What does Miss Furnivall have a hard time doing?
(a) Speaking.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Walking.
(d) Seeing.
2. Where was the nursemaid and Miss Rosamond's room just above in the house?
(a) The east drawing room.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) Miss Furnivall's room.
(d) The library.
3. What happens to Miss Rosamond's parents when she was around 4 or 5?
(a) They split up.
(b) They died.
(c) They lost all their money.
(d) They abandoned her.
4. Who is the author of "Old Nurse's Story"?
(a) Elizabeth Browning.
(b) George Eliot.
(c) Emily Bronte.
(d) Elizabeth Gaskell.
5. How do the nursemaid and Miss Rosamond feel around Miss Furnivall and Mrs. Stark when they first meet them?
(a) Confused.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Inferior.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where are the nursemaid and Miss Rosamond sent to live after Miss Furnivall died?
2. How does the narrator say Mrs. Stark treats Miss Furnivall?
3. How old is Miss Furnivall who lives in the Manor House where Miss Rosamond and the nursemaid are sent?
4. Who are the first servants the nursemaid meets after meeting Mrs. Stark and Miss Furnivall?
5. Why does the nursemaid wake Miss Rosamond when Mr. Henry asks her to despite not thinking it wise?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Hester's relationship to the children's mother and what does she think of their mother?
2. Who are Miss Furnivall and Mrs. Starks who live in the Manor House? What is Hester and Miss Rosamond's first impression of them?
3. Who are James and Dorothy? What is their position in the Furnivall household? How does James feel about the Furnivalls and about Dorothy?
4. What had Hester heard about the Lord Furnivall's feelings about Miss Rosamond's mother and why does she feel it might not be true?
5. What portraits lined the walls of the Manor House? Who asked Dorothy to tell her who was in each portrait? Which portrait shows a beautiful but scornful young woman?
6. What is Hester's impression of the Manor House when she and Miss Rosamond first arrive?
7. What did Miss Furnivall ask of Hester on her deathbed? How did Hester feel about the request?
8. Who came to settle the estate when Miss Rosamond's parents died and what plan did they come up with for Hester and Miss Rosamond?
9. Who is the nursemaid speaking to at the very start of "The Old Nurse's Story" and what family member is she telling them about?
10. Who were Miss Rosamond's parents and what happened to them when she was around 4 or 5?
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