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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six: The End.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Shakespearean play does the author discuss in Chapter 5: "Italy"?
(a) Antony and Cleopatra.
(b) Troilus and Cressida.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

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

3. Miss Barrett perched herself upon a stone in the middle of ____________.
(a) The Protestant English Cemetery of Florence.
(b) Casa Guidi.
(c) The Apennines.
(d) Petrarch's fountain.

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"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Simile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Frederick Tennyson die?

2. Who suggested to Sir Edward Lytton that a committee should be appointed by the government to get the facts?

3. What kind woman would pause and take a sugared biscuit from her reticule when passing Flush?

4. What disease was rampant in London?

5. What was Elizabeth Barrett Browning's last work, which was published posthumously?

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