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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Italy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 5: "Italy," Miss Wilson still had the conscience to walk out of a picture gallery "struck back by the indecency of" what?
(a) The Venus.
(b) The patrons.
(c) The Mona Lisa.
(d) Michelangelo's David.

2. When autumn arrived, Flush's only airings were with whom in Chapter 2?
(a) Robert Browning.
(b) Miss Wilson.
(c) Henry.
(d) Miss Mitford.

3. Upon Flush's first inspection of the dogs in Italy, he wondered if what had no jurisdiction in Italy?
(a) MI6.
(b) The Kennel Club.
(c) Scotland Yard.
(d) The Royal Navy.

4. What figure of speech is represented by "... just as a river, though it reflects still trees and grazing cows and rooks returning to the tree-tops, moves inevitably to a waterfall, so those days, Flush knew, were moving to catastrophe"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Simile.
(d) Symbolism.

5. The carriage that took Miss Barrett and Flush into town drove along what street in Chapter 2: "The Back Bedroom"?
(a) Manning Street.
(b) Tottenham Court Road.
(c) Oxford Street.
(d) Wimpole Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Flush was bitten by the Cuban Bloodhound, Miss Barrett remarked that Flush was no __________.

2. The Brownings and Flush took a carriage ride that "went on and on and on, painfully climbing the heights of" what, in Chapter 5: "Italy"?

3. Elizabeth Barrett had one sister who died when Elizabeth was how old?

4. What was the name of the Cuban Bloodhound who lived in the Barrett home?

5. Miss Barrett perched herself upon a stone in the middle of ____________.

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