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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Desirable features that Spaniels were expected to have included which of the following?
(a) A top-knot.
(b) Pale eyes.
(c) Smooth head.
(d) Curled ears.

2. The parade that passed the Brownings house in Chapter 5: "Italy" was in celebration of whom?
(a) Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
(b) Lord Stanley.
(c) The Grand Duke.
(d) Mr. Boyd.

3. Who is described as a lady with "a very light complexion -- pale, lucid, eyes; thin colorless lips . . . a nose and chin projective without breadth"?
(a) Henrietta.
(b) Mary Graham Clarke.
(c) Miss Wilson.
(d) Mrs. Jameson.

4. Miss Browning wrote that Flush was of what school?
(a) Irony.
(b) Ignominy.
(c) Byronic.
(d) Magnanimity.

5. On what day did Flush make his second attack on Mr. Browning?
(a) December 26.
(b) July 21.
(c) April 3.
(d) January 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, who landed in Spain and reportedly shouted, "Span! Span!"?

2. In the summer, what was Flush beset by that made him edgy and despondent?

3. What was the date when Mr. Browning first visited Miss Barrett?

4. In Chapter Three, the author writes that Mr. Browning's _________ was "perhaps the sharpest thorn that pressed into Flush's side"?

5. The author writes that Flush "was the sole aristocrat among a crowd of" what, in Chapter 5: "Italy"?

(see the answer key)

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