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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Septimus bring home for Thomasina?
(a) A dead pheasant for pheasant pie.
(b) A dead pigeon for pigeon pie.
(c) A dead racoon for racoon pie.
(d) A dead rabbit for rabbit pie.

3. 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.

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

5. Valentine describes Thomasina's diagram as ___________________.
(a) A diagram of heat exchange.
(b) A diagram of chaos and order.
(c) A diagram of positive and negative charges.
(d) A diagram of the future.

6. Bernard and Chloe ________________________.
(a) Were caught falsifying his research.
(b) Were caught together by Chloe's father.
(c) Were caught together by Chloe's mother.
(d) Were caught leaving together.

7. What secret does Augustus know about Thomasina?
(a) That she is adopted
(b) That she kissed Septimus
(c) That she is in love with Byron
(d) That she is secretly a genius

8. What is unusual about the staging in this scene?
(a) The modern and period characters appear simultaneously.
(b) The modern characters are interacting with the period characters.
(c) The modern characters do not speak.
(d) The period characters are wearing modern clothing.

9. What sound effect signals a change in eras?
(a) The music fades away.
(b) The music grows modern.
(c) Gunshots.
(d) Thunder.

10. Lady Croom believes she must marry Thomasina off before _______________________.
(a) She is too sarcastic to be found desireable.
(b) She is too old to be found desireable.
(c) She is educated beyond eligibility.
(d) She is too poor to be an eligible bride.

11. What is Valentine working on at the beginning of this scene?
(a) Looking through the game book for information on Grouses
(b) Planning his proposal to Hannah
(c) Writing a letter to the editor protesting Bernard's findings
(d) Pushing Thomasina's equations through his computer

12. Hannah continues to question Bernard's theory about Byron because ___________________.
(a) He is a sexist.
(b) He will not concede any of her points.
(c) He has no proof.
(d) He has questioned her research.

13. What does Hannah insist she will find at the end of the scene?
(a) Proof for her theory that Thomasina was a genius.
(b) Proof for her theory that Septimus was the hermit.
(c) Proof for her theory that Bernard was wrong.
(d) Proof for her theory that the hermit never existed.

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

15. What is Bernard's response to Hannah's statement that she has a theory but cannot prove it?
(a) He tells her she will never publish because she is too timid.
(b) He tells her to wait until she finds proof.
(c) He tells her no good theory can be proven.
(d) He tells her to publish it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can't Noakes provide for the garden?

2. Why does Hannah repeatedly raise her hand during Bernard's reading?

3. Lady Croom compares Noakes to _________________.

4. What sound occurs in this part of the scene?

5. What article has Septimus loaned Byron?

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