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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does La Rue do at church?

2. According to the narrator, what turns girls' heads?

3. Why does Henry's father disown him?

4. Who is Henry Temple?

5. When Montraville meets Charlotte in Chichester, what does he give her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What internal struggles does Charlotte develop concerning John and La Rue?

2. How does John manipulate Charlotte?

3. Why is Charlotte so ecstatic over the note Du Pont gives her from her parents?

4. How do the physical descriptions of John Montraville and Belcour set the tone for the novel?

5. How does La Rue bully Charlotte one more time before they begin traveling to America?

6. Why would Henry discharge Eldridge's debt?

7. Why is Charlotte's family history important?

8. How is Charlotte's youth and inexperience shown through her actions?

9. What type of family does Henry Temple marry into?

10. What sort of note does Montraville give Charlotte?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Does Harry Temple's character--or the reader's perception of his character--change at all throughout the novel? If so, how and why? If not, why would the author keep him a static character?

Essay Topic 2

How do the changing seasons align with characters' actions and plot development?

Essay Topic 3

Look at the letters Charlotte writes to her parents from America. What do the change in Charlotte's letters to her parents show about her situation?

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