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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Lovelace respond when the dying Clarissa forgives him?
(a) He asks whether she forgave James and Arabella, since the whole thing was really their fault.
(b) He says he does not forgive her.
(c) He says he is not sure he deserves to be forgiven.
(d) He says he is glad, because now he doesn't have to worry about being punished in the afterlife.

4. To whom does Clarissa leave her music books and library?
(a) Lovelace.
(b) James.
(c) Arabella.
(d) Dolly.

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

6. When Lovelace talks to Hickman, he says Clarissa lets someone else court her. Who?
(a) Solmes.
(b) The God of Love.
(c) Death.
(d) Belford.

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

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

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

10. 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) Aunt Antonia.
(b) James.
(c) Mrs. Howe.
(d) Uncle Antony.

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

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

13. Who stops Lovelace and Morden from fighting?
(a) Lord M.
(b) Uncle Antony.
(c) Clarissa.
(d) Mr. Hickman.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hickman tell Belford is causing Miss Howe to delay her marriage to Hickman?

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

3. Besides the Harlowes' servants, what other servants does Clarissa leave money to?

4. Why does Miss Howe say Clarissa's death makes it hard for her to marry Hickman?

5. What does Clarissa explain she meant when she said she hoped she would be able to receive Mr. Lovelace in her father's house?

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