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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who interrupts the conversation between Newland and Ellen?
(a) The maid
(b) Regina Beaufort
(c) The Duke of St. Austrey
(d) May Welland

2. What type of people live in the area where Ellen lives?
(a) Writers and artists
(b) Wealthy people
(c) Black people
(d) Hispanic people

3. Who is the main character who arrives late at the opera?
(a) Janey Archer
(b) Mrs. Manson Mingott
(c) Henry van der Luyden
(d) Newland Archer

4. What does Newland think of his fiancee, May Welland?
(a) She is brilliant
(b) She is cunning and manipulative
(c) She is dull
(d) She is beautiful and innocent

5. Who dines at the Archer household the night after the ball?
(a) Countess Olenska
(b) Mr. and Mrs. van der Luyden
(c) Julius and Regina Beaufort
(d) Mr. Stillerton Jackson

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of flowers does Newland send to Ellen that night?

2. What is the opera being produced as the story begins?

3. What is the general consensus about Countess Olenska?

4. How does Ellen Olenska appear to Newland when he sees her at a dinner party?

5. What does Newland consider his marriage to May to be?

(see the answer key)

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