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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. What title does Leonora Ashburnham's father go by?
(a) Sir.
(b) Colonel.
(c) Lord.
(d) Captain.

2. What does Leonora Ashburnham tell Nancy Rufford about the whereabouts of Nancy's mother?
(a) She tells her that her mother has passed away.
(b) She tells her that her mother has run off with a young man.
(c) She tells her that her mother has been kidnapped.
(d) She tells her that her mother has become a homeless drifter.

3. The Ashburnhams receive a telegram regarding the care of Nancy Rufford's mother. In order to care for her, where does the sender of the telegram want to take Nancy's mother?
(a) To Italy.
(b) To Nauheim.
(c) To Paris.
(d) To India.

4. Where does Nancy Rufford live before she begins living with the Ashburnhams?
(a) In the slums of Bombay.
(b) With her parents in the British countryside.
(c) In a convent school.
(d) In a boarding school for the arts.

5. After Captain Edward Ashburnham dies, where does John Dowell take up residence?
(a) Monte Carlo.
(b) Nauheim.
(c) The Hurlbird estate.
(d) The Branshaw Manor House.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Captain Edward Ashburnham's death, Leonora Ashburnham shares with John Dowell a letter written by which of the following people:

2. By the end of Part 4, Chapter 5, what does Nancy Rufford decide to do with herself?

3. What is discovered about John Hurlbird's health after his death?

4. During the Ashburnham's last night at Nauheim, what does Leonora Ashburnham suggest to her husband?

5. On the morning Leonora Ashburnham is bedridden, what does Nancy Rufford realize after reading the newspaper?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Leonora Ashburnham approve of the affair between Captain Edward Ashburnham and Maisie Maidan?

2. Do you agree with John Dowell when he says that Captain Edward Ashburnham does not feel remorse?

3. John Dowell describes Nancy Rufford as a young and exuberant Catholic school girl. Is Nancy as pious and righteous as her religious upbringing might suggest?

4. If Leonora has been so patient and accommodating of Captain Edward Ashburnham's actions, why is Leonora unable to forgive Edward for giving money to the woman accused of murdering a baby?

5. What must Nancy reject in order to make her decision to meet her mother in Glasgow?

6. Why do you suppose Leonora Ashburnham never turned to her family for advice on her marriage?

7. In Part 3, Chapter 4, John Dowell describes many unfortunate circumstances that contributed to the downfall of the Ashburnham marriage. With John's sympathetic portrait of the Ashburnhams in mind, do you think unfortunate circumstances are to blame for the destruction of the Ashburnham marriage or are the Ashburnhams themselves to blame for its downfall?

8. In Part 4, Chapter 1, what is John Dowell's motivation for blaming both Leonora Ashburnham and Florence Dowell for the downfall of the Ashburnham marriage and not Captain Edward Ashburnham?

9. Do you think Nancy is a good judge of character?

10. Why does John Dowell continually excuse Captain Edward Ashburnham from the reader's judgment?

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