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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Elinor try to persuade Elinor to give Willoughby's present up?
(a) She is allergic to horse hair
(b) It will cost too much to keep
(c) Marianne cannot ride
(d) It is too extravagant

2. What does Marianne want to do?
(a) Die
(b) Go home to Barton Cottage
(c) FInd another man
(d) Stay and fight for Willoughby

3. Which of the following words does Austen use to describe Sir John?
(a) A sportsman
(b) A libertine
(c) A rogue
(d) A charlatan

4. Which two sisters go for a walk in the country?
(a) Marianne and Elinor
(b) Margaret and Marianne
(c) Margaret and Elinor
(d) Elinor and Fanny

5. Who saves Marianne from her twisted ankle?
(a) Edward
(b) Mrs. Dashwood
(c) Willoughby
(d) John Dashwood

6. How do they Steel sisters win over Lady Middleton?
(a) Complementing her house
(b) Making funny jokes
(c) Telling her she is beautiful
(d) By being friendly to her children

7. Whose lock of hair does Edward claim it is?
(a) Fanny's
(b) His own
(c) His brother's
(d) Lucy's

8. What does Marianne notice under Edward's ring?
(a) Skin
(b) A small photograph
(c) A piece of paper
(d) A lock of a hair

9. Which nearby manor do the character's intend to visit the next day?
(a) Norden
(b) Cleveland
(c) Barton
(d) Whitwell

10. What does Elinor ask Marianne proof of?
(a) Her engagement to Willoughby
(b) Her birth
(c) That she owes Willoughby money
(d) Her love for Willoughby

11. Who does Elinor see Willoughby with?
(a) A fashionable looking young woman
(b) A princess
(c) Lucy Steele
(d) His elderly mother

12. What does Marianne do at the party?
(a) Play the piano
(b) Paint
(c) Sing
(d) Mime

13. How many marriages has Henry Dashwood had?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Ten
(d) Eight

14. What does Colonel Brando receive before the trip to Whitwell?
(a) A sum of money
(b) A letter
(c) A bracelet
(d) An invitation

15. When does Mrs. Dashwood want to make changes to the cottage?
(a) When her daughter's marry
(b) When the weather improves
(c) Immediately
(d) When they have settled in.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Austen describe the cottage?

2. Why does John express sorrow to the fact the Dashwoods are moving so faraway?

3. Who is the first person to visit the sisters in London?

4. For how long do Lucy and Anne stay at Barton Park?

5. Who does Lucy say she has been secretly engaged to for a year?

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