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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Charles not feel bad about his privileged class?
(a) He was raised to accept his privileged status.
(b) He thinks everyone but the beggars look happy.
(c) He is too unhappy to consider it.
(d) He is oblivious to the people around him.

2. Where is Charles twenty months later?
(a) In America
(b) Back in Exeter
(c) In the French Foreign Legion
(d) Traveling abroad

3. Why does Charles go to see Dr. Grogan?
(a) He suspects Dr. Grogan saw him with Sarah through his telescope.
(b) He needs advice about what to say to Sarah when they meet.
(c) He wants sleeping powder for Ernestina.
(d) He needs advice after receiving a note from Sarah.

4. Why is Sarah out of the flat when the baby is crying?
(a) She goes to pick up her mail.
(b) She goes to buy tea for breakfast.
(c) She goes for medicine for Charles' hangover.
(d) She goes to get Charles a hansom.

5. What does Charles observe about American women?
(a) He considers them too pristine.
(b) He sees a shadow of Sarah in each of them.
(c) He sees them as no different from women in England.
(d) He thinks that they have no sense of style.

6. What is Sarah's reaction to Charles' guilt?
(a) She calls him stupid and behind the times.
(b) She accuses him of being like the French Lieutenant.
(c) She says all she wants is his happiness.
(d) She says she cannot believe he is like Mrs. Poulteney.

7. What has happened at the prostitute's house?
(a) Charles has been drinking heavily and begins throwing up when she said her name was Sarah.
(b) Sarah's little daughter comes in and gets into bed with them.
(c) Charles has intercourse with the girl before finding out her name was Sarah.
(d) Charles passes out from too much to drink and sleeps in a chair.

8. What discovery does Charles make that hits him like a thunderbolt?
(a) That he is free to leave Sarah forever.
(b) That he had not wanted to make love to Sarah.
(c) That Sarah had planned his seduction carefully.
(d) That Sarah is a virgin.

9. What document does Dr. Grogan give Charles to read?
(a) The trial of Lieutenant Le Ronciere.
(b) Darwin's Origin of Species
(c) The gossip in the local newspaper.
(d) The admission requirements for Bedlam.

10. What happens after Charles puts out the fire on Sarah's blanket when coals pop from the fireplace?
(a) He jumps up to leave.
(b) Sarah begins to cry.
(c) They stare into each other's eyes and kiss.
(d) Mrs. Endicott runs in to see what the smell is.

11. What new service does Charles use to try and locate Sarah?
(a) Personal ads in the Times
(b) Private investigators
(c) Police all points bulletins
(d) Radio advertisement

12. What humiliation is Charles forced to undergo?
(a) Signing a letter of guilt for Mr. Freeman.
(b) Losing his home in Kensington.
(c) Appearing in court for breech of promise.
(d) Being expelled from his club.

13. To what animal does Charles compare himself at the time?
(a) A pampered Pekinese dependant on his future father-in-law.
(b) A feral cat who must make his way by stealth and cunning.
(c) A serpent that devours everyone around him.
(d) The hedgehog who curls up in a ball and erects its spines of aristocracy.

14. Where does Charles go after leaving the Freeman mansion?
(a) To his flat in Kensington
(b) To the theatre
(c) To his club on St. James
(d) To his best friend's house

15. When she couldn't sleep, what does Ernestina decide to do?
(a) Go to the kitchen and eat.
(b) Go look for Aunt Tranter.
(c) Write in her diary.
(d) Go for a walk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam tell Charles he wants two hundred and eighty pounds for?

2. What does Knowles acknowledge as the modern gentleman?

3. Why does Charles go into the child's room?

4. What do Sam and Mary see briefly at the shed door?

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

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