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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Thomasina claim she will marry?
(a) Keats.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Septimus.
(d) Bernard.

2. According to the diagram, what can never be recovered after an action is complete?
(a) The importance of the action.
(b) The ability to repeat the action.
(c) The heat created by it.
(d) The damage created by it.

3. How are the modern characters dressed differently in this scene?
(a) They are wearing Regency clothing.
(b) They are wearing Edwardian clothing.
(c) They are wearing Victorian clothing.
(d) They are wearing Elizabethan clothing.

4. When Thomasina suggests they must hurry to dance, Septimus responds that __________________.
(a) They cannot waltz to the current song.
(b) It would be improper for them to dance.
(c) They do not have time before her mother returns.
(d) They have time.

5. Why does Hannah repeatedly raise her hand during Bernard's reading?
(a) She is afraid to interrupt him aloud.
(b) She is trying to prove he is wrong.
(c) She is objecting to his offensive language.
(d) She is objecting to unsupported statements.

6. Why does Septimus say he cannot teach Thomasina to waltz?
(a) Because there is no music playing.
(b) Because he does not know how.
(c) Because the music playing is too slow for a waltz.
(d) Because she is not wearing shoes.

7. What does Hannah discover in the book Bernard has given her?
(a) The hermit was actually Lord Byron.
(b) Septimus and Lord Byron had a duel in 1809.
(c) The hermit left Sidley Park after Byron did.
(d) Septimus and the hermit were born in the same year.

8. When Thomasina asks Septimus to meet her in her room, he _______________.
(a) Kisses her.
(b) Accepts.
(c) Refuses.
(d) Gets angry.

9. How does Hannah reconcile the tension between science and religion?
(a) Science measures what is quantifiable, while religion explains what is qualitative
(b) Science is valuable as an earthly struggle; religion a cheat
(c) Science is the countenance of God's creation
(d) Science is God's method of ordering the universe

10. What plant betrays Bernard's theory about Byron and the duel?
(a) A mum.
(b) A pansy.
(c) A dahlia.
(d) A daisy.

11. What tabloid headline does Hannah share with the Crooms?
(a) Sex, Literature, and Death at Sidley Park
(b) Bonking Byron Shot Poet
(c) Child Prodigy Solves Apple Leaf
(d) Mad Monkey Bites Back

12. Why does Brice bring Chater to the West Indies?
(a) So he can avoid a duel with Chater.
(b) So he can avoid a duel with Septimus.
(c) So he can be sure Chater is killed.
(d) So he can have an affair with Mrs. Chater.

13. What does Septimus do with the letters at the end of the scene?
(a) Puts them in his copy of Byron's book.
(b) Burns them.
(c) Throws them away.
(d) Puts them in The Couch of Eros.

14. At the start of the scene, Bernard is _____________________.
(a) Reading Hannah's manuscript.
(b) Reading his manuscript.
(c) Reading Lady Croom's letters.
(d) Reading Byron's journal.

15. According to Hannah, how is the study of history like science?
(a) Both have no room for romantic feelings
(b) Both seek to create universal laws
(c) Both rely on rigorous experimentation
(d) Both believe things can't be proved true, only not to be false yet

Short Answer Questions

1. What secret does Augustus know about Thomasina?

2. Why does Septimus claim he had an affair with Mrs. Chater?

3. Septimus apologizes for ______________________________.

4. Lady Croom objects to Septimus' love letter because _________________________.

5. Where does Hannah find proof that Bernard's theory is incorrect?

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