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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Lovelace's relatives want to give Clarissa to show their regard for her?
(a) All their property.
(b) A quarterly allowance.
(c) All the money Lovelace expects to inherit from Lord M.
(d) A lot of jewelry and clothes.

2. What makes Colonel Morden threaten to avenge Clarissa?
(a) Morden finds out that Clarissa was pregnant.
(b) Morden learns from Brand that everyone is saying Morden's reputation is stained by Clarissa's actions.
(c) Morden realizes that Lovelace stole Clarissa's money.
(d) Morden learns that Clarissa was raped, not seduced.

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

4. Who has Clarissa arrested?
(a) Solmes.
(b) The Widow Sinclair.
(c) Her brother James.
(d) Lovelace.

5. What do James and Arabella think causes their unhappiness in marriage?
(a) All marriages are unhappy.
(b) Solmes is out to get them.
(c) The fact that they did not inherit Morden's money.
(d) Their bad treatment of Clarissa.

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

7. After reading the letter in which Clarissa mentions going to her "father's house," what does Lovelace guess might have changed Clarissa's thinking?
(a) He thinks she always intended to marry him, but didn't want him to know it.
(b) He thinks Belford has persuaded her.
(c) He thinks she is pregnant.
(d) He thinks Colonel Morden persuaded her.

8. Who does Clarissa especially want to prevent from viewing her body?
(a) Miss Howe.
(b) Lovelace.
(c) The varlets.
(d) Widow Sinclair.

9. Who, besides Lovelace, does Morden almost fight when he meets with Lovelace?
(a) Mr. Harlowe.
(b) Uncle Antony.
(c) Mr. Mowbray.
(d) Mr. Hickman.

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

11. Why does Morden criticize Miss Howe?
(a) For not marrying Hickman quickly, as Clarissa asked her to.
(b) For not mourning Clarissa enough.
(c) For not being serious enough.
(d) For not being very smart.

12. How does Clarissa pay the doctor?
(a) She gets money from Lovelace.
(b) She gives the doctor cookies she baked.
(c) She tells the doctor her family will pay him after she dies.
(d) She sells some of her clothes.

13. Who is the Belfords' housekeeper?
(a) Mrs. Howe.
(b) Mrs. Norton.
(c) Widow Lovick.
(d) Mrs. Harlowe.

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

15. Which members of Clarissa's family complain about her bequests to Dolly and Mrs. Norton?
(a) Dolly and Mrs. Norton.
(b) James and Arabella.
(c) Sally and Polly.
(d) Mr. and Mrs. Howe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Clarissa ask to be the executor of her will?

2. What language was Clarissa learning before her death?

3. Which adjective best describes Clarissa's behavior when discussing her death with the doctor?

4. Who offers to adopt Clarissa as his own daughter?

5. What does Lovelace think about Clarissa's broken heart?

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