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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Clarissa do after the charges against her are dropped?
(a) She tries to seduce the jail-keeper.
(b) She runs outside and goes to see Miss Howe to celebrate.
(c) She says she wants to stay and teach writing classes for the inmates.
(d) She refuses to leave the jail at first.

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

4. Why does Colonel Morden hide from Clarissa?
(a) He doesn't want to shock her, since she hasn't seen him in a long time and she is sick.
(b) He knows Clarissa hates when people watch her sleeping, so he doesn't want her to know he was doing that.
(c) He thinks it would cheer her up if he jumped out from behind the curtains.
(d) He is afraid to see her because he feels guilty about not having helped her more.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does James ask Belford to turn the executorship over to?

2. What do the Hickmans name their daughter?

3. What damaging fact does Mr. Brand report to Clarissa's family?

4. Who does Colonel Morden disinherit?

5. When Lovelace reads Clarissa's letter about going to her "father's house," why is he happy?

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