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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three: The Hooded Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what nickname was Elizabeth Barrett known to her family?
(a) Rett.
(b) Ba.
(c) Liz.
(d) Beth.

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

3. It was January in what year that Miss Barrett received a letter unlike others?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1839.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1856.

4. What, in reality, did Flush see himself as when he looked in the mirror?
(a) A companion.
(b) A servant.
(c) A dog.
(d) An aristocrat.

5. After punishing Flush, what did Miss Barrett do that Fluff considered "of calculated and deliberate malice"?
(a) Went for a walk.
(b) Put Mr. Browning's flowers in a vase.
(c) Sent Flush to Miss Wilson.
(d) Beat Flush.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Flush refer to as Miss Barrett's sister's little King Charles?

2. What did Miss Barrett tell Flush after Mr. Browning left on the day that Flush first bit him?

3. 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"?

4. Miss Barrett was full of apologies when Flush flew at whom and bit him for stumbling over the bell-pull?

5. In a letter in Chapter Three, Miss Barrett wrote, "You are Paracelsus, and I am _____________."

(see the answer key)

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