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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Clarissa specifically forbid to wear mourning clothes?
(a) Lovelace.
(b) Widow Sinclair.
(c) Miss Howe.
(d) Arabella.

2. 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) New York.
(c) California.
(d) Massachusetts.

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

4. Which adjective best describes Clarissa's behavior when discussing her death with the doctor?
(a) Angry.
(b) Hysterical.
(c) Desperate.
(d) Calm.

5. How does Clarissa plan to pay for her funeral?
(a) She sells her clothes.
(b) She hopes that it will cost her family a lot of money.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Clarissa send the mean letters she received from her family?

2. What does Clarissa do with her coffin while she's still alive?

3. Who writes to Clarissa renewing an old marriage proposal and swearing to stay single as long as Clarissa is available to marry him?

4. After reading the letter in which Clarissa mentions going to her "father's house," what does Lovelace guess might have changed Clarissa's thinking?

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

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