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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lord M promise to do if Lovelace marries Clarissa but is a bad husband?
(a) Lord M says he will disinherit Lovelace and leave his money to Clarissa and her children instead.
(b) Lord M says Clarissa can divorce Lovelace and marry Lord M instead.
(c) Lord M says he will lock Lovelace up in Lord M's dungeon until he promises to be good.
(d) Lord M says he will have Lovelace arrested and imprisoned.

2. Why does Dr. Lewen refuse to perform the wedding ceremony?
(a) Because Clarissa does not consent.
(b) Because Dr. Lewen is sick with gout.
(c) Because Dr. Lewen can not stand the Harlowes.
(d) Because Dr. Lewen earlier fought a duel with Solmes.

3. Which of the following deals does Clarissa offer to James if he will stop trying to force her to marry Solmes?
(a) Clarissa will give James half her inheritance and give him her best maid to take to Scotland.
(b) Clarissa will give James all her chickens, and she will help Arabella get Lovelace to marry her.
(c) Clarissa will give up her inheritance or become James's maid in Scotland.
(d) Clarissa will give up her inheritance or she will marry a servant.

4. Why do Arabella and James want Clarissa to marry Solmes before Colonel Morden returns?
(a) James and Arabella plan to murder Morden when he returns and inherit his property.
(b) James and Arabella think Morden will talk Solmes out of wanting to marry Clarissa.
(c) James and Arabella are afraid Morden will give Clarissa her independence.
(d) James and Arabella know Morden will be happy about the marriage and they want to surprise him.

5. What does Lovelace say is the cause of all his sins?
(a) His love of women.
(b) His high opinion of himself.
(c) His love of money.
(d) His drinking.

6. Whose house is Clarissa staying in while in London?
(a) Mrs. Howe.
(b) Lady Betty Lawrence.
(c) Aunt Hervey.
(d) Widow Sinclair.

7. What goal does Lovelace say he will achieve by trying to seduce Clarissa?
(a) Test the virtue of all women.
(b) Keep himself busy.
(c) Test his own seductiveness.
(d) Achieve his 100th seduction.

8. Why is Clarissa's family happy that she has agreed to see Solmes?
(a) Solmes threatened the family if they did not let him see her.
(b) They believe this means she eventually will agree to marry him.
(c) They believe she will turn him down, and they can finally forget about the whole thing.
(d) Solmes has agreed to give them money in return for a meeting with her.

9. Who does Miss Howe threaten to take revenge on when her mother refuses to give Clarissa protection?
(a) Mr. Hickman.
(b) All men.
(c) Uncle Antony.
(d) Mr. Solmes.

10. Why does Clarissa refuse to follow James's command to go to her Uncle Antony's house?
(a) Because James did not say "please."
(b) Because Uncle Antony smokes, and she can not stand to be around smoke.
(c) Because Clarissa never does what she is told.
(d) Because James is not her parent.

11. Which of Lovelace's friends is pleased to learn of Clarissa's escape?
(a) Mr. Solmes.
(b) Captain Tomlinson.
(c) Mr. Belford.
(d) Will.

12. Why does Arabella say the Harlowes refuse to send Clarissa her money or jewelry?
(a) Because they want to see her beg in the streets.
(b) Because they don't think it is safe to mail money and jewelry.
(c) Because they don't want the money to end up in Lovelace's hands.
(d) Because the family has gone bankrupt.

13. How does Solmes believe husbands should handle wives?
(a) Allow them to act any way they want.
(b) Keep them barefoot and in the kitchen.
(c) Treat them with love and respect.
(d) Rule them through fear.

14. What does Clarissa say about Mrs. Howe's refusal to help her?
(a) Clarissa says Mrs. Howe is the meanest old woman she knows.
(b) Clarissa says Mrs. Howe is going to pay for refusing to help her.
(c) Clarissa says that Mrs. Howe's decision proves that she is out of her mind.
(d) Clarissa says Mrs. Howe made the right decision in refusing to help her.

15. Why does Clarissa run away after the fire at Widow Sinclair's house?
(a) She believes Lovelace set the fire to get a chance to ravish her.
(b) She set the fire herself so she could run away.
(c) She hates fire even more than Lovelace.
(d) She wants to join the circus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does James plan to do with Clarissa if he "rescues" her?

2. Who is Mrs. Townsend?

3. At the end of this section (letters 56-74), who is Clarissa pinning her hopes on?

4. When Clarissa visits Lovelace's bedroom in her nightgown, what does she ask him?

5. Why does Lovelace spread a rumor that James still plans to kidnap Clarissa?

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