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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 44, 45, 46, and 47.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Knowles explain the Victorian ending is all about?
(a) A means of explaining the Victorian mentality.
(b) Charles' imagination of how things would end.
(c) Ernestina's dream the night before Charles returns to Lyme.
(d) An exercise in literary speculation.

2. What does Charles decide to do?
(a) Go out and look for Sarah himself.
(b) Send Sam to look for Sarah.
(c) Go back and tell Dr. Grogan the whole truth.
(d) Open a bottle of brandy and get drunk.

3. How does Dr. Grogan rebut Charles' objection that nothing improper passed between him and Sarah?
(a) He says Charles protests too much.
(b) He calls Charles a liar and orders him out of his house.
(c) He confesses that he saw them in his telescope.
(d) He uses the catechism about wishing for a sinful act being the same as doing it.

4. What happens after that first kiss?
(a) Overcome with passion, Charles tears off his clothes and makes love to her.
(b) Charles removes Sarah's shawl and night gown.
(c) Charles panics and runs out of her room.
(d) Sarah asks him to carry her to her bed before he leaves.

5. Why does Charles not tell Mrs. Tranter and Ernestina of his chance meeting with Sarah on the Ware Commons?
(a) He sees that the women are too involved in other gossip.
(b) He forgets that it ever happened.
(c) He doesn't know how to begin telling them.
(d) He has now become obsessed with the enigma of Sarah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after Charles puts out the fire on Sarah's blanket when coals pop from the fireplace?

2. To what does Knowles compare Charles' official decision to go ahead with his marriage to Ernestina?

3. What does Charles find inside the old shed?

4. Why does Mrs. Poulteney insist Sarah stay when Mrs. Tranter calls with Charles and Ernestina in tow?

5. What metaphor does Charles use to describe his guilt of lying about Sarah?

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