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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Miss Barrett begin calling herself in Chapter 5: "Italy"?
(a) Mrs. Browning.
(b) Mrs. Elizabeth.
(c) Mrs. Righi.
(d) Mrs. Jameson.

2. Who suggested to Sir Edward Lytton that a committee should be appointed by the government to get the facts?
(a) Signor Righi.
(b) Lord Stanley.
(c) George Clayton Tennyson.
(d) Mr. Landor.

3. When did Frederick Tennyson die?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1856.

4. The gang leader who stole Flush was said to make an income of how much a year out of the dogs of Wimpole Street?
(a) 2,500-4,000 pounds.
(b) 2,000-3,000 pounds.
(c) 500-1,000 pounds.
(d) 1,000-2,000 pounds.

5. What disease was rampant in London?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Bubonic plague.
(d) Leprocy.

6. How did Virginia Woolf die?
(a) She drowned herself.
(b) She died in a fire.
(c) She was in a car accident.
(d) She hung herself.

7. When was Poems Before Congress written?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1855.

8. When was Mrs. Dalloway published?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1917.

9. Each time the door opened while Flush was held in captivity by thieves, he looked up hoping to see Miss Barrett; but, it was always some horrid humans bringing in _________________.
(a) More stolen dogs.
(b) Garbage.
(c) Awful food.
(d) Water dishes.

10. Who sent word that in his opinion it would be "an awful sin" to pay the ransom?
(a) Mr. Taylor.
(b) Mr. Kenyon.
(c) Mr. Beames.
(d) Mr. Boyd.

11. Whitechapel was in a triangular space of ground at the bottom of what road?
(a) Tottenham Court Road.
(b) Manning Street.
(c) Vere Street.
(d) Wimpole Street.

12. Mrs. Browning wrote of Flush in "Chapter 5: "Italy," "... it was in the world of ____ that Flush mostly lived."
(a) Sight.
(b) Sound.
(c) Taste.
(d) Smell.

13. The faces of the men that Elizabeth Barrett saw in the ghetto were inspiration for what later work?
(a) The Seraphim, and Other Poems.
(b) Casa Guidi Windows
(c) Aurora Leigh.
(d) Poems Before Congress.

14. With whom had Elizabeth Barrett gone shopping when Flush was stolen?
(a) Mary Graham Clarke.
(b) Mrs. Jameson.
(c) Miss Wilson.
(d) Arabel.

15. Who came into the Barrett home and called Mr. Taylor "a swindler, and a liar and a thief" in Chapter 4: "Whitechapel"?
(a) Dr. Mitford.
(b) Henry.
(c) Henrietta.
(d) Alfred.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Elizabeth Barrett Browning move after Florence?

2. When did Barnard Gregory die?

3. After Flush was stolen, he was thrown into ____________ with other stolen dogs.

4. What did the spirits of the crystal balls begin inhabiting in Chapter 6?

5. What was the fifth day of Flush's imprisonment in Chapter 4: "Whitechapel"?

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