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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 Charles say he wants to go through in Chapter 6?
(a) Julian's book.
(b) Merricat's father's will.
(c) Constance's preserves.
(d) Merricat's father's clothes.

2. How does Julian describe Charles?
(a) As naive.
(b) As rude.
(c) As confused.
(d) As dishonest.

3. How many unbroken chairs does Merricat find to put at the table?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

4. What does Merricat break in Chapter 6?
(a) A clock.
(b) A pair of cufflinks.
(c) A jar.
(d) A mirror.

5. What does Merricat complain about Charles leaving everywhere in Chapter 6?
(a) His shoes.
(b) Cigarette butts.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Dirty teacups.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Constance and Merricat fashion dresses out of?

2. Who tells everyone at the house to stop taunting the girls?

3. Why does Merricat return to the house in Chapter 8?

4. After the fire, what do the girls do particularly during the afternoons?

5. What did Merricat's mother want to do to the summerhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the fire, what does Merricat say are her new safeguards? Why does she think she needs new ones?

2. What does Merricat do in order to get Charles to leave her house?

3. Faced with a ruined home, what do Constance and Merricat decide to do?

4. What do the girls decide to do in honor of Uncle Julian in Chapter 9?

5. After the fire, what do the sisters find to use for clothing?

6. What does Merricat imagine at the end of Chapter 7?

7. What does Charles say he wants to go through in Chapter 6? How does Julian react?

8. What does Charles discover hidden in Chapter 7? How does Merricat think he found it?

9. What act commences the villagers' attack on the Blackwoods' house?

10. In Chapter 6, what does Charles say when Merricat asks him to go away?

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