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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which family member recommends to Clarissa to stop seeing Belford, in hopes that she might be able to reconcile with the rest of the family if she does?
(a) Clarissa's mother.
(b) Uncle Antony.
(c) Clarissa's father.
(d) James.

2. How does Widow Sinclair act when Belford tells her she's dying?
(a) Calm and practical.
(b) She does not believe him.
(c) She laughs and tells him everyone's dying and she doesn't care.
(d) Hysterical.

3. Who refuses to go to Belton's funeral?
(a) Lovelace.
(b) Belford.
(c) Belton's son.
(d) Lord M.

4. What errand does Miss Howe have in London, which means she will be able to visit Clarissa?
(a) Shopping for her own coffin.
(b) Visiting her aunt on the Isle of Wight.
(c) Buying wedding clothes.
(d) Meeting with a lawyer to write her own will.

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

6. How does Morden feel after the duel?
(a) Happy.
(b) The reader can not tell.
(c) He doesn't feel anything, because he faints.
(d) Regretful.

7. What does Morden bring Clarissa?
(a) A picture of her mother.
(b) A rose diamond ring.
(c) Money from her estate.
(d) A picture of Miss Howe.

8. When Belford criticizes Clarissa's family for its stubbornness, how does Clarissa respond?
(a) Clarissa asks Belford if he will write to her family and tell them what he said about them.
(b) Clarissa says Belford is not being severe enough.
(c) Clarissa says Belford is right, and her family will suffer in the afterlife for the way they have treated her.
(d) Clarissa tells Belford he doesn't have the right to criticize her family.

9. After Mr. Harlowe renounces his curse, what does Clarissa write to her mother to ask for?
(a) A last blessing before she dies.
(b) To restore her joy.
(c) The money her grandfather left her.
(d) To be allowed to come home.

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

11. Who are Mr. Mullins and Mr. Wyerley?
(a) Two policemen who are investigating Lovelace.
(b) Two of the varlets.
(c) Two men who wanted to marry Clarissa.
(d) Clarissa's cousins.

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

13. Who does Colonel Morden disinherit?
(a) Clarissa.
(b) James.
(c) Lovelace.
(d) Belford.

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

15. Who inherits the lands that were supposed to go to Lovelace?
(a) James.
(b) Belford's son.
(c) M'Donald.
(d) Arabella.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Clarissa's family say that they don't believe that she is very sick, what does she say will prove it?

2. When Lovelace talks to Hickman, he says Clarissa lets someone else court her. Who?

3. What reason does Clarissa give Charlotte for continuing to refuse to marry Lovelace?

4. Why does Morden criticize Miss Howe?

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

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