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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the meeting in the secluded place, what does Sarah talk about?
(a) She talks about her innocence.
(b) She talks about the hypocarcy of the people of Ryme.
(c) She confesses what she did and why she did it.
(d) She talks about wanting to marry and have children.

2. Why does Sarah take the risk of not going by the back way around the dairy the morning she is seen by two walkers?
(a) She thinks it is too early for anyone else to be about.
(b) She is late for Mrs. Poulteney's reading.
(c) She is thinking too hard and does not notice which way she went.
(d) She decides to be brazen and go where she pleases.

3. How does the bright day affect Charles?
(a) He says he will go back to bed.
(b) He says everything looks unreal.
(c) He says it almost makes him not return to London.
(d) He says it is rare to see such brightness and he hates it.

4. What is Charles' thinking as he passes through the vast estate?
(a) That his uncle has let the place go.
(b) That he does not want to live there.
(c) That Ernestina will not be up to running the great house.
(d) That is it soon to be his.

5. After Sarah goes to work for Mrs. Poulteney, how does she size up her employer?
(a) She understands her and how to handle her like a skilled cardinal handles a weak pope.
(b) She learns to keep her mouth shut at all times and at all costs.
(c) She sees Mrs. Poulteney as a tyrant and tries to warn the staff when she is coming.
(d) She is indifferent to Mrs. Poulteney's quirks of behavior.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the two obsessions of Mrs. Poulteney?

3. What does Charles say to Sarah about forgiving her sin?

4. How does Knowles pull himself into the novel in Chapter 13?

5. Of what does Ernestina warn Charles about the people of Lyme?

Short Essay Questions

1. When a search party is formed to find the missing Sarah, how does Charles know she is still alive?

2. What is the promise Sarah extracts from Charles when they meet at the Undercliff?

3. What is Mrs. Poulteney's idea about God?

4. What does Dr. Grogan tell Charles about trying to help Sarah?

5. Describe the nature of the surprise Ernestina and Charles plan for Aunt Tranter.

6. How does Sarah insist that the county is filled with women who are outcasts?

7. In Lyme, by some strata of society, Sarah Woodruff is known as the French lieutenant's whore. Ernestina has another name for her. Why and what is it?

8. Why is Mrs. Poulteney troubled by the parable of the widow's mite?

9. What saves Charles from having to explain why he has been playing with fire?

10. Describe Charles' reaction to the expected visits with the prim Victorian ladies of Ernestina's acquaintance.

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