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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What activity does the apothecary recommend Clarissa do less of to improve her health?
(a) Taking opium.
(b) Writing.
(c) Fainting.
(d) Laying around.

2. Who does Clarissa tell Miss Howe to be nicer to?
(a) Lovelace.
(b) Polly and Sally.
(c) Widow Sinclair.
(d) Mr. Hickman.

3. What languages did Clarissa know well, besides English?
(a) French and Italian.
(b) German and Russian.
(c) Spanish and Chinese.
(d) Latin and Greek.

4. How does Clarissa plan to pay for her funeral?
(a) She hopes that it will cost her family a lot of money.
(b) She asks Miss Howe to take up a collection among her friends.
(c) She sells her clothes.
(d) She asks Lovelace to pay, since her death is his fault.

5. Why does Clarissa want copies of Lovelace's letters to Belford?
(a) Because Clarissa wants to write a novel about everything that has happened to her.
(b) Because Clarissa hopes that if she reads these letters, she will be able to tell whether or not Lovelace really loves her.
(c) Because Clarissa suspects that Belford encouraged Lovelace to mistreat her.
(d) Because the Howes want to know all the details of Clarissa's story.

6. What damaging fact does Mr. Brand report to Clarissa's family?
(a) That Clarissa was seen at a ball dancing with Lovelace and drinking.
(b) That Clarissa gets frequent visits from Lovelace's friend, Belford.
(c) That Clarissa's "illness" is really opium addiction.
(d) That Clarissa is faking her illness.

7. Why does Clarissa tell Morden he should not avenge her?
(a) Because vengeance is God's job.
(b) Because Lovelace is good with a sword and will kill Morden.
(c) Because she always loved Lovelace.
(d) Because if he kills Lovelace, Lord M will come to kill Morden.

8. In Clarissa's posthumous letter to Lovelace, what does she say about her feelings for him?
(a) That she never cared for him.
(b) That she liked him a little, but no more than she liked Mr. Solmes.
(c) That she once loved him but now hates him, and expects he will be punished when he dies.
(d) That she did prefer him and hopes for his reformation.

9. Where does Clarissa want to be buried?
(a) In Westminster Abbey.
(b) In her grandfather's back yard.
(c) In Lovelace's family's vault.
(d) In her family's vault.

10. Who does James ask Belford to turn the executorship over to?
(a) Clarissa's Uncle Antony and Uncle Harlowe.
(b) James and Mr. Harlowe.
(c) James and Arabella.
(d) Mr. Hickman.

11. Who (besides Clarissa) asks Belford to be the executor of a will?
(a) Belton and Lovelace.
(b) Miss Howe and Mr. Hickman.
(c) Lord M and Colonel Morden.
(d) Uncle Antony and Uncle Harlowe.

12. When Lovelace goes to Clarissa's lodgings and she is not there, who does Lovelace leave to spy on her?
(a) His aunt.
(b) Bill.
(c) Solmes
(d) Will.

13. What does Clarissa do with her coffin while she's still alive?
(a) Lays in it to pretend she is a vampire.
(b) Stares at it all the time, mumbling about how she does not want to die.
(c) Asks other people to lay in it when they want to talk to her.
(d) Uses it as a desk.

14. Who does Clarissa instruct Belford to be friends with?
(a) The varlets.
(b) Colonel Morden.
(c) James.
(d) Lovelace.

15. How does M'Donald feel while dying?
(a) Sure of going to heaven.
(b) Penitent.
(c) Calm and rational.
(d) Happy to be getting out of jail.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Mr. Mullins and Mr. Wyerley?

2. Which members of Clarissa's family complain about her bequests to Dolly and Mrs. Norton?

3. Which member of Lovelace's family agrees that Clarissa ought to let Lovelace visit her one last time?

4. What does Clarissa do after the charges against her are dropped?

5. To whom does Clarissa leave her music books and library?

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