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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11, 12, and 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What double duty does Sam perform at Mrs. Tranter's door?
(a) He delivers the flowers for Ernestina and an invitation to a dance for Mary.
(b) He delivers Charles' bouquet for Ernestina and a smaller one for Mary, the maid.
(c) He delivers the flowers along with a singing telegram.
(d) He recites a poem to Mary as he gives her the flowers for Ernestina.

2. What is Ernestina's great fear about marriage?
(a) The sinfulness of sex.
(b) The pain and brutality of sex.
(c) The dread of being seen naked.
(d) The idea of becoming amother.

3. Where does Charles establish his quarters after his father's death?
(a) In Balmory.
(b) In Essex.
(c) In Wales.
(d) In Kensington.

4. Why is Mrs. Poulteney shocked to hear that Sarah is walking on Ware Commons?
(a) It leads to the Cobb where the sailors are.
(b) Along Ware Commons there are ale houses and thieves.
(c) It has become to be called Lover's Lane.
(d) She goes out unchaperoned.

5. At that time in London, what is socially becoming as important as good blood?
(a) Good education and good travel.
(b) Good clothes and good houses.
(c) Good connections and good experience.
(d) Good money and good brains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Knowles say the novelist is?

2. What shop in Lyme is somewhat famous?

3. What does Mrs. Poulteney insist as requisites for a companion?

4. How did Charles' father rid him of the desire to become a priest?

5. What does Knowles say is the most common symptom of wealth in 1867?

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