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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The seamstress says in the beginning of Chapter 1: “A Dreadful Row” that what month is “a fortuitous time for a marriage”?
(a) December.
(b) September.
(c) June.
(d) August.

2. The letter to the Consul from Gabriel and Gideon which opens Chapter 7: “Dare to Wish” relates that the amount of money Charlotte Branwell spends on what items “rivals the annual income of a large estate or small country”?
(a) Coats.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Hats.
(d) Gloves.

3. The title of Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm” is a literary allusion to a poem by what author?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

4. What year is described in the opening of the Prologue?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1862.

5. The poem “Carrion Comfort” that is cited in the opening of Chapter 3: “To the Last Hour” was written by what English poet?
(a) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(d) Edgar Allen Poe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting that is described in the opening of the Prologue?

2. What does Jem give to Will to sell for money for his drugs in Chapter 4: “To Be Wise and Love”?

3. Who is the Consul that writes to the Members of the Council in the opening of Chapter 5: “A Heart Divided”?

4. What is the name of Will’s sword that he uses in Chapter 2: “The Conqueror Worm”?

5. Charlotte tells Will and Jem in Chapter 6: “Let Darkness” that Jessamine is returning “and if none of you can bear to have her here, I will arrange for her transport to” where?

(see the answer key)

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