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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: The Back Bedroom.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom did Flush refer to as Miss Barrett's sister's little King Charles?
(a) Folly.
(b) Catiline.
(c) Arabel.
(d) Tray.

3. Elizabeth Barrett had one sister who died when Elizabeth was how old?
(a) 11.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

4. Where did Miss Barrett take Flush for a walk in Chapter 2?
(a) Regent's Park.
(b) Marylebone Church.
(c) Oxford Street.
(d) Petrarch's fountain.

5. What were the names of Miss Barrett's two sisters?
(a) Sarah and Mary.
(b) Arabel and Henrietta.
(c) Mary and Henrietta.
(d) Arabel and Sarah.

Short Answer Questions

1. Flush concluded that "Where there are flower beds there are _____________."

2. What is one of the features considered undesirable in Spaniels, according to the author?

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

4. Who is described as a lady with "a very light complexion -- pale, lucid, eyes; thin colorless lips . . . a nose and chin projective without breadth"?

5. What was Elizabeth Barrett's father's name?

(see the answer key)

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