The Secret of the Old Clock, Chapter XXIII. Looking for the Will quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. What has Carson Drew done before Nancy arrives at his office?

   • Told the Horner girls the news
   • Telephoned the Tophams about the will
   • Correct answer: Gotten a court order from the judge
   • Driven to Masonville and back

   He saw the judge early that morning and received the court order.

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   Question 2. Why does Carson Drew tell the story of the Frenchman?

   • To show that Josiah Crowley had relatives in Canada
   • Correct answer: To warn that the box may hold only more directions
   • To explain why Josiah used a false name
   • To pass the time on a long, dull drive

   He says Crowley was queer and may have left only further directions, like the Frenchman.

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   Question 3. How does the bank president know Josiah Harkston was Josiah Crowley?

   • A teller at the bank remembers Crowley's face
   • Crowley left a letter explaining the false name
   • The Tophams told the bank about it last year
   • Correct answer: Harkston's signature is in Crowley's cramped writing

   Nancy and her father see that the signature is in Josiah Crowley's cramped hand.

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   Question 4. What problem comes up after the banker accepts the court order?

   • Correct answer: They have no key to the box
   • The vault is closed for the day
   • The box is empty
   • The box has been moved to another bank

   The banker asks for the key, and Nancy realizes she never thought of it.

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   Question 5. How is the key problem solved?

   • Nancy finds a key hidden inside the notebook
   • Carson Drew drives all the way back home to search for Josiah's key
   • A locksmith is called to break the lock
   • Correct answer: The banker has a key Josiah left in a sealed envelope

   Josiah had two keys and left one with the banker, sealed in an envelope.

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   Question 6. Why does Carson Drew ask the banker to initial the pages?

   • Correct answer: So the banker can identify the will later if needed
   • Because the law requires every will to be signed by a banker
   • So the Tophams can't say the banker never saw the will
   • To pay the unpaid rent on the deposit box

   He asks the banker to initial each page so he can later identify it if necessary.

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   Question 7. Who were the two witnesses to the will?

   • Mr. Rolsted and Carson Drew
   • Correct answer: Doctor Nesbitt and Thomas Wackley
   • Abigail Rowen and Matilda Turner of Masonville
   • The bank president and his clerk

   Doctor Nesbitt, who died soon after Crowley, and Thomas Wackley signed as witnesses.

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   Question 8. What does 'eccentric' mean in: 'An eccentric Frenchman died and he left directions to look in a trunk of old clothes'?

   • Angry and bitter
   • Rich and famous
   • Correct answer: Odd or unusual
   • Kind and generous

   The Frenchman's strange trail of clues shows how odd he was.

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   Question 9. What does 'vault' mean in: 'they entered the vault which contained the safety deposit boxes'?

   • A waiting room near the front door
   • Correct answer: A strong, locked room for keeping valuables
   • A high jump over a bar
   • A small office for the bank president

   The safety deposit boxes are kept in the bank's heavily barred vault.

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    Question 10. Which of these events happen in Chapter 23?

    • Carson Drew locks the notebook in his office safe.

      Happened

    • The will turns out to be missing from the box.

      Didn't happen

    • The banker brings out a key sealed in an envelope.

      Happened

    • Nancy reads the whole will aloud in the bank vault.

      Didn't happen

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