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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gwendolyn request after speaking to Lydia Glasher for the first time?
(a) To have a private investigator follow Glasher to see what she is really doing.
(b) To have the woman arrested.
(c) To be taken to a doctor.
(d) To leave the archery event early.

2. What does Mrs. Davilow claim to have learned about Daniels' mother?
(a) That she was a very famous actress.
(b) That she was destitute.
(c) That she was "some foreigner of high rank".
(d) That she was murdered by someone she knew -- possibly Daniel's father.

3. How does Gwendolyn feel about gambling?
(a) That it is a great thrill and one she misses dearly.
(b) That the wins and losses are no different than every day life.
(c) That she could do it professionally if only women were allowed to gamble.
(d) That it is a great way for her to show off and gain admirers.

4. In what job does Mrs. Davilow think Gwendolyn will be happiest?
(a) As a nurse.
(b) As a teacher.
(c) As a governess.
(d) As a singer.

5. Which of the following is the only dance that Gwendolyn says that she will dance at the ball soon after she meets Grandcourt?
(a) The polka.
(b) The quadrille.
(c) The waltz.
(d) The stilta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who greets Grandcourt when he goes calling to Gwendolyn's house the day after she meets Lydia Glasher?

2. What club does Gwendolyn join with Reverend Gascoigne?

3. What does Daniel do upon seeing Gwendolyn for the first time that bothers her so much?

4. What does Gwendolyn think that she must do if she is going to win spectacularly?

5. How does Gwendolyn sell her necklace the morning that she leaves the gambling town?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gwendolyn react when she receives her pawned necklace supposedly from Daniel?

2. Why is Anna a little disappointed to hear of Gwendolyn's engagement?

3. Why does Mrs. Davilow think that Gwendolyn must leave home and get a job?

4. What does Daniel tell Sir Hugo about Grandcourt's reaction to the proposed settlement?

5. What does Daniel tell his uncle right after he finds the girl at the river?

6. Why does Gwendolyn think that her family will travel abroad after she leaves Grandcourt before he can propose?

7. How does Gwendolyn react when she enters her family's new rented house in Offendene?

8. What does Mirah come to realize about her father as she gets older?

9. How does Lydia react when Grandcourt asks her to return his diamonds?

10. How does Mrs. Davilow respond to Gwendolyn's question about illegitimate children?

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