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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Whitechapel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease was rampant in London?
(a) Leprocy.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Bubonic plague.
(d) Typhus.

2. What word means disgrace or public shame; dishonor ?
(a) Irony.
(b) Ignominy.
(c) Byronic.
(d) Magnanimity.

3. What was the name of the Cuban Bloodhound who lived in the Barrett home?
(a) Tray.
(b) Arabel.
(c) Catiline.
(d) Folly.

4. What did Flush do after his first owner deserted him in Miss Barrett's room?
(a) He vomited.
(b) He howled.
(c) He urinated.
(d) He scratched at the door.

5. According to the author, the Basque word "espana" signified what?
(a) Dog.
(b) Boundary.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Goose.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Elizabeth Barrett's mother die?

3. Flush was in a shop on _________________ when he was stolen in Chapter Three.

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"?

5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the foremost poets of what era?

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