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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 book is Byron mentioned as the author of?
(a) English Bards and Scottish reviewers
(b) Poetical Verses
(c) The Couch of Eros
(d) Lyrical Ballads

2. Septimus describes carnal embrace as _______________________.
(a) Throwing one's arms around a lover.
(b) Throwing one's arms around an animal.
(c) Throwing one's arms around a cow.
(d) Throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

3. Chloe asks Hannah ___________________________.
(a) If she is done with her book.
(b) If she is romantically interested in Bernard.
(c) If she is romantically interested in Gus.
(d) If she is married.

4. Who enters the scene uninvited?
(a) Chater.
(b) Byron.
(c) Noakes.
(d) Brice.

5. Why does Septimus finally agree to duel with Chater?
(a) Chater insults Thomasina.
(b) Brice and Chater challenge him together.
(c) Lady Croom insists upon it.
(d) Chater demands Septimus duel or leave Sidley Park.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Valentine studying using his mathematical process?

2. What does Bernard say Hannah is lacking?

3. What is Hannah's gift to Bernard?

4. When Septimus mentions death in Arcadia, Thomasina responds ____________________.

5. Septimus' reply to the letter is _____________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why has Thomasina come to see Septimus in the middle of the night?

2. What information does Bernard seek at Sidley Park?

3. What has Hannah found for Bernard?

4. Why doesn't Bernard want Hannah to know his real name?

5. Describe Thomasina's character.

6. What, according to Valentine, is iteration?

7. Why does Septimus burn Byron's letter without reading it?

8. Why does Augustus return to Septimus at the end of Thomasina's lesson?

9. What does Thomasina's theory about stirring jam into rice pudding represent to her?

10. Why is Hannah interested in the hermit of Sidley Park?

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