We Have Always Lived in the Castle Quiz

Merricat Blackwood

In a large, expensive house in the woods secluded from the village

Tuesdays and Fridays; she had to go to the village

<p>Her trip was unpleasant and uncomfortable. The villagers hate Merricat; they rudely avoid her, gossip about her in front of her, and taunt her. She is treated this way because her family was all killed, except for Constance and Uncle Julian.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She hates them and she wants them all to die</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That she poisoned the Blackwood family</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because Merricat's mother did not want to see common villagers walking freely about. The pathway meant to be a shortcut to the village is gated and locked from the villagers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Constance never leaves, but she says she is thinking about going to the village someday</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Their Uncle Julian</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Constance</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She was not allowed to help with the food, prepare it, or gather mushrooms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Helen Clarke and Mrs. Wright</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because Constance was accused of killing the Blackwood family through poison in that house</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There was arsenic put in their sugar during dinner</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Constance; she made the food and washed the bowl with sugar in it before the police arrived.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He is a survivor from the sugar poisoning, but it affected him so that his memory was severely damaged. Sometimes, he randomly remembers moments from the past, but will snap back into his clueless state right after.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That a change was coming. Constance looked at the driveway three times, Uncle Julian was not well, and Jonas was fretful.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>On Wednesdays, Merricat checked the fence to make sure it wasn't broken and none of the villagers could get in. When Dr. Levy visits, the sisters follow such a dependable routine that Constance knows to go to her room so that she can avoid him. Their routine is very strict. Merricat knows exactly how dinner will go down to the very minute. She says that she doesn't even want light getting into the house.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sunday - Merricat examines the safeguards, the box of silver dollars she'd buried, the doll she'd buried, and the book nailed to the tree in the pine woods. Monday - Merricat and Constance neaten the house thoroughly. Tuesday - Merricat goes to the village. Wednesday - Merricat checks the fence to make sure it isn't broken. Thursday - Merricat goes into the big attic and dresses in her dead parents' clothes. Friday - Merricat goes to the village. Saturday - Merricat helps Constance work in the garden by caring for her tools or carrying baskets of flowers and vegetables.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To check on Uncle Julian. He is always in a hurry because no one wants to stay in the Blackwood house.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tension was caused by the cost of having Julian and his wife staying in the house.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Constance</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Blackwood women have a large supply of jam in a cellar; generations of the women in the household have added to it. The women in the Blackwood household are also the ones that cook the food. This represents the theme of family and gender roles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Melody, Gloucester, Pegasus</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That the 'change' is coming soon; something bad will happen</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She saw a series of three long, thin things (hair in her toothbrush, fragment of string caught on a chair, splinter broken off the back step). When she saw long, thin things, it was apparently a reminder to be nicer to him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She kills them easily, which shows she has no remorse or aversion to murder.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cousin Charles</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The book had fallen from the tree</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>On the moon. Rose petals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She thinks he is a ghost at first, because she doesn't want to believe he is actually there. She doesn't like him and wants him to go away.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Charles likes Constance a lot, and he thinks she is beautiful. Since Constance is the most vulnerable one in the house, he has chosen her to manipulate. He is even unafraid to eat her food.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Charles knows Merricat doesn't like him and wants to get even with her for it. He doesn't care for/doesn't like Merricat. He takes Merricat's job of going to the village away from her, disrupting routine, something Merricat depended heavily on.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Charles' father wouldn't let him help the sisters because he didn't like them, but as soon as he died, Charles came to them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>His father left Charles nothing when he died. This shows that Charles is searching for money and foreshadows he wants their money.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>28</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Their father's room</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Uncle Julian begins talking about the dead Blackwood family. He tries to talk about the day they died, but Charles cuts him off.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That they keep the money in the house. He says that it isn't wise.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Merricat starts talking about her profound knowledge of poisons and how they work.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Merricat is very rude to Charles because she hates him. She hopes that he will leave, but when it reaches the third day and he is still there, she decides to ask him to leave. He says no and turns the question onto Merricat. Now that she feels threatened, she will begin to lash out.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She nails it to the tree that her book had once fallen from. Charles finds it, and he is very angry that someone would treat such an expensive item with such carelessness like that.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She is slowly starting to regret allowing she, Merricat, and Uncle Julian to live so isolated. Her thinking is beginning to mirror Charles', because he is manipulating her in an attempt to gain control of the household.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That in a month or so, Charles will still be there, but Merricat will be gone.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That he is dishonest and a bastard.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is the day she would finally get rid of Charles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Since routine is so important to Merricat, she assumed that by disrupting Charles' routine, it would drive him away: She stops their father's watch that Charles had started. She altered their father's room by replacing the items inside with wood, leaves, water, etc. so that he wouldn't recognize it and think this was not the house he'd wanted to visit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He finds the silver dollars Merricat has buried. Constance responds carelessly and just says that Merricat likes to bury things.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Constance starts to believe she shouldn't let Merricat wander, and that Merricat should socialize and have friends. She also contemplates putting Uncle Julian in a hospital. In all, she realized that the three of them have been living in a bubble.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Charles is the one manipulating Constance and her thoughts. Merricat hates it, hates that her beloved Constance was acting this way, and sought to end it immediately.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Charles is growing very frustrated with Uncle Julian. He does not respect Uncle Julian, even if that is his elder and Charles should.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She imagines her dead family surrounding her, telling Merricat that they love her, she should never be punished, and that she should be adored.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because Merricat envisions this for herself, but this was not what her family was actually like towards her.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She brushes Charles' still-burning pipe into a wastebasket filled with newspapers. She starts a fire.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Charles is blamed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The money inside the house.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>As the fire is burning, the entire village is watching them; one woman even suggests letting the fire burn. They wish the house had burned down with the Blackwoods inside. Once the fire is put out, the villagers storm the house, destroying it. They run after Merricat and Constance while chanting at and taunting them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>At first, they are insistent that they need to put out the fire because they are firemen. Once the fire is gone, though, the Chief - Jim Donell - picks up a rock and throws it at one of the windows in the house. This starts the stampeding crowd that ruins the house.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Along the porch to the corner where the vines grew thick.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He dies by heart attack.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Merricat killed the Blackwood family.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Merricat's hiding place by the stream.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An orphanage, because none of their remaining family members would take her in.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She closes the shutters, locks the front door, and covers the windows with cardboard.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Helen Clarke, Jim Clarke, and Dr. Levy try checking on the sisters, actually concerned about them. Even though they have good intentions, the sisters want total isolation and no human interaction at all.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Yellow</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Merricat's poisoning of her family. She purposely put the arsenic in the sugar because she knew Constance never used sugar.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Now that the gates to the path are open, children come and play on the lawn and villagers use their short-cut to the village.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>On the moon. This references isolation, because Merricat's dream the entire novel was to live with Constance on the moon. This wasn't a desire to live on the moon itself, but a desire to live in isolation. Now that it is just Merricat and Constance, Merricat has what she has always wanted.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They gather food from the vegetable garden. Food is dropped off on their doorstep from apologetic villagers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They no longer isolate themselves from the girls because they finally feel sorry for the way they've treated the Blackwoods.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Charles tries visiting Constance one day. He is still after the money, claiming he's been waiting to come back for a while, but his intention is to grab a picture with Constance and sell it for money.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Merricat's desires are slowly shifting onto Constance. She repeats Merricat's words that they are so happy with their new life of complete isolation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The lock on the front door, the boards over the windows, and the barricades along the sides of the house.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>With Merricat and Constance in total isolation.</p> Signup and view all the answers