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True False
 * True or False ** 1. Framton Nuttel was visiting friends.

 2. Mr. Nuttel was on a business trip. True False

 3. Framton's sister had met Mrs. Sappleton. True False

 4. The weather was mild. True False

 5. Mrs. Sappleton's husband and brothers had died in a shooting accident. True False

 6. Mrs. Sappleton's husband was called Bertie.

 True False

 7. Mrs. Sappleton was not interested in Framton's illness. True False

 8. The figures coming across the grass were ghosts. True False



**Short answer. Use CSRQ.** 1. Who is the author? 2. What is the author’s real name? 3. How old is Vera? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">4. From what does Framton Nuttel suffer? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">5. What did Framton’s sister give him to take with him and why? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">6. What does Framton know of Vera’s aunt? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">7. What does Vera say happened three years ago? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">8. Besides the three men, who else went missing, according Vera? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">9. According to Vera, why is the window left open? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">10. Why does Framton run out of the house? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">11. What does a bicyclist have to do to avoid hitting Framton? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">12. What reason does Vera give for why Framton ran off? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">13. How might the story be different if Framton were the narrator?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Short Answer 1. Why has Nuttel come to town? 2. Why is the window left open, according to Vera? 3. What does Mrs. Sappleton talk about when she joins Nuttel and Vera? 4. How does Vera explain Nuttel’s sudden departure? 5. What is Vera’s “specialty”?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">1. Why is Mr. Nuttel uncomfortable visiting the Sappletons? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">2. What is the only thing Mr. Nuttel talks about when Mrs. Sappleton arrives? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">3. What seems to distract Mrs. Sappleton? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">4. Who arrives during Nuttel’s visit? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">5. How does Vera explain Mr. Nuttel’s departure? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> **Multiple Choice**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">1. Mr. Nuttel’s sister. ---a. is ill ---b. is friends with Vera <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">---c. insists on giving him letters of introduction ---d. asks him to deliver gifts to her friends

2. Nuttel admits to Vera. ---a. that he is visiting on doctor’s orders ---b. that he used to live nearby ---c. that he knows nothing about Mrs. Sappleton ---d. that he wishes he didn’t have to visit

3. Vera claims to be explaining. ---a. why they must sit in that particular room ---b. why the window is open ---c. why the room is warmer than normal ---d. why her aunt never ventures into this room

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> 4. What does Vera seem to suggest about Mrs. Sappleton? ---a. that grief has affected her mental state <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">---b. that she is not really her aunt ---c. that she doesn’t want to meet Mr. Nuttel <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">---d. that she is physically ill

5. This story suggests that Vera. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">---a. desperately misses her uncle and brothers ---b. would love to go to school <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">---c. doesn’t understand why Mr. Nuttel is visiting ---d. has a vivid imagination