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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter One: Three Mile Cross.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What confused Flush about Miss Barrett's room?
(a) The window.
(b) The furniture.
(c) The rug.
(d) The cat.

2. What is one of the features considered undesirable in Spaniels, according to the author?
(a) A dark nose.
(b) Dark eyes.
(c) Uncurled ears.
(d) A top-knot.

3. What year was it when Flush was taken to live with Elizabeth Barrett?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1857.

4. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the foremost poets of what era?
(a) Post-modernist.
(b) Elizabethan.
(c) Victorian.
(d) Jacobean.

5. The voice that called Flush's name after Miss Mitford left was from a woman lying ___________.
(a) On the bed.
(b) In a hammock.
(c) On the floor.
(d) On the couch.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states that, ironically, there is no __________ to stop humans with undesirable traits from breeding.

2. When was Elizabeth Barrett born?

3. The date of Flush's birth was estimated to be early in what year?

4. Flush was a descendant of what red Cocker Spaniel of note?

5. Flush became a father before he was how old in Chapter One: "Three Mile Cross"?

(see the answer key)

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