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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. Who says, "God bless you, sir, we know you was always our friend"?
(a) Sir Abraham.
(b) Bunce.
(c) Harding.
(d) Abel.

2. Grantly plans to win the case against Harding by saying he has what role at the hospital?
(a) Priest.
(b) Servant.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Warden.

3. How much money does Harding make each year?
(a) 100 pounds.
(b) 800 pounds.
(c) 1200 pounds.
(d) 550 pounds.

4. What is the name of the newspaper that publishes a story about the lawsuit against the warden?
(a) The Sun.
(b) TheTimes.
(c) The Jupiter.
(d) The Cosmos.

5. Who says, "It's all your own fault, archdeacon"?
(a) Bold.
(b) Susan.
(c) Mary.
(d) Harding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests that Harding write to the newspaper that publishes a story about the lawsuit against him?

2. What is the name of the beadsman who mutters "he didn't know" over and over?

3. It is well-known that Grantly always defends the side of what?

4. Grantly says a local newspaper has taken up a case against the Dean of where?

5. What is the first name of the man who, centuries before the story opens, started a home for the old and destitute men of the city?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hiram's Hospital come to exist?

2. Why does the narrator say he has made up the town of Barchester?

3. How does the charitable men's home manage its money?

4. What is Harding's relationship to the Bishop of Barchester?

5. What does Grantly do after he decides to nip the beadsmens' rebellion in the bud.

6. What do Grantly and the bishop tell Harding when he asks what should be done about the slander the Jupiter published against him?

7. How does Bunce react when he finds out that most of the beadsmen have already signed the petition saying that they deserve a much bigger share of the hospital's money?

8. How do Harding and Grantly feel about Bold's attempts to create reform?

9. What happens after Eleanor reproaches Bold for being at odds with her father?

10. How does a scandal erupt out of the legal battle between Harding and the beadsmen?

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