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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 and 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What terrible image does Mrs. Talbot have from the literature she reads?
(a) A picture of Sarah reduced to working in a house of ill repute.
(b) A picture of Sarah begging on the streets.
(c) A picture of Sarah after jumping from a cliff.
(d) A picture of Sarah dying of starvation.

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

4. What begins to trouble Charles about his engagement to Ernestina?
(a) That he has been too conventional in his choice and it is not like him at all.
(b) That she is too flighty and unable to discuss anything with him calmly.
(c) That he needs a less exciting existence so he could concentrate on rocks.
(d) That Ernestina is far too young for him and would leave him for a younger man.

5. What investments had Charles' father made?
(a) Shipping and rock collecting.
(b) Coal mining and religion.
(c) Importing and politics.
(d) Rail stocks and gambling.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is Dr. Grogan well known in Lyme?

2. What title did Charles' grandfather hold?

3. What transpires between Mrs. Tranter and Sarah?

4. What is Sarah's position in Charmouth?

5. How does Ernestina react to Charles' suggestion that they elope and go to Paris?

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