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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. Who is Miss Evelyn’s mother?
(a) Evelina.
(b) Mrs. Mirvan.
(c) Madame Duval.
(d) Lady Howard.

2. What does Evelina say in Letter XI about the men’s behavior at the ball?
(a) The men treated the women with great respect and honored their wishes.
(b) The men smirked at homely women and looked with ravenous eyes at the beautiful ladies.
(c) The men looked as though they thought the women were only there for the men’s pleasure.
(d) The men looked with amusement eyes as they walked past the women.

3. To whom did Rev. Villars make a promise about protecting Evelina?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Her mother.

4. How does Evelina describe the men who wait on the ladies at the millinery?
(a) So well dressed!
(b) So attentive, so handsome!
(c) So finical, so affected!
(d) So debonair!

5. In Letter XXIV, Rev. Villars looks forward to seeing _________________.
(a) Evelina is an educated woman.
(b) Evelina as a contented spinster.
(c) Evelina is a powerful woman.
(d) Evelina as a revered lady in her neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Letter XXVII, how does Lady Howard feel that Sir Belmont will react to claiming Evelina as his child?

2. According to Letter XXXII, who is the London visitor at Howard Grove?

3. What does Evelina buy at the mercer?

4. What did the first man who asked Evelina to dance at the ball refer to her as?

5. Why does Mrs. Mirvan choose Kensington Gardens as a possibility for a walk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maria hear Lord Orville say about Evelina? What does Lord Orville say in defense of Evelina?

2. Who threatens to write Sir John Belmont about Evelina? Who actually writes the letter? What is their request? How does Sir Belmont respond?

3. Who investigated Miss Belmont’s background to find out about her predicament?

4. Who is intent on seeing that Sir Belmont recognizes Evelina as his own?

5. Who confesses to having intercepted Evelina’s letter to Lord Orville? What else does the person confess to having done concerning the letter?

6. What important event does Mrs. Mirvan take Evelina and Marie to in London?

7. At the end of the story, what phrase does Evelina use to refer to Reverend Villars?

8. What changes after Evelina runs into Lord Orville at Mrs. Beauchamp’s house?

9. Why is Miss Belmont at Mrs. Beauchamp’s house?

10. What was Burney’s experience in high society?

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