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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does Clarissa ask to be the executor of her will?
(a) Uncle Antony.
(b) Miss Howe.
(c) Belford.
(d) Mr. Hickman.

4. 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) Uncle Antony.
(b) Clarissa's father.
(c) Clarissa's mother.
(d) James.

5. 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 learns that Clarissa was raped, not seduced.
(d) Morden realizes that Lovelace stole Clarissa's money.

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

7. What does Mrs. Lovick tell Lovelace gives Clarissa the strength to leave the house?
(a) Clarissa's fear of Lovelace.
(b) Clarissa's love of Solmes.
(c) Clarissa's fear of her father.
(d) Opium.

8. To whom does Clarissa send the mean letters she received from her family?
(a) Mr. Lovelace.
(b) Belford.
(c) Mrs. Norton.
(d) Colonel Morden.

9. Who does Lovelace hope to see at Colonel Ambrose's ball?
(a) Polly and Sally.
(b) Miss Howe and Mr. Hickman.
(c) Colonel Ambrose and Lord M.
(d) Uncle Antony and Uncle Harlowe.

10. When Clarissa's hearse arrives at Harlowe Place, who is following it?
(a) Paid mourners.
(b) A bunch of peasants from the village.
(c) Miss Howe and Mr. Hickman.
(d) Lovelace's varlets.

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

12. What stops Lovelace from killing himself when he learns of Clarissa's death?
(a) He's a coward and stops at the last minute.
(b) Lord M has Lovelace put in a padded cell to protect him.
(c) Will has taken all his weapons away.
(d) Clarissa's ghost appears and tells him to stop.

13. Why doesn't Clarissa respond to Miss Howe's letter suggesting she put herself under Lady Betty's protection and marry Lovelace?
(a) Clarissa thinks Miss Howe's letter is a forgery.
(b) Clarissa doesn't get the letter, because she's in jail.
(c) Clarissa is still not speaking to Miss Howe.
(d) Clarissa is so upset she has lost the ability to hold a pen.

14. When most of Clarissa's family agrees to let Mrs. Norton go to visit Clarissa while she is dying, which member of the family holds out?
(a) Uncle Antony.
(b) Aunt Antonia.
(c) Mrs. Howe.
(d) James.

15. The Harlowes tell Clarissa she must go to America for a few years before she can move back to her estate, and Clarissa agrees to go, if she does not die soon. Which state do they want her to go to?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) California.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stops Lovelace and Morden from fighting?

2. Who refuses to go to Belton's funeral?

3. Where does Clarissa want to be buried?

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

5. What reason does Clarissa's doctor give for saying she does not have to pay him?

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