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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Miss Barrett asked Flush if he believed _________ was alive in Chapter Three: "The Hooded Man."
(a) A tuba.
(b) A piano.
(c) A guitar.
(d) A harp.

4. What day of the week was it when Mr. Browning first visited Miss Barrett in Chapter Three?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Tuesday.

5. What word, meaning not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect, did Flash consider Mr. Barrett to be in Chapter Three: "The Hooded Man"?
(a) Obtuse.
(b) Vengeful.
(c) Repulsive.
(d) Arrogant.

6. From what did Flush drink his water, noting that it was deserving of his high rank?
(a) A golden dish.
(b) A bronze goblet.
(c) A purple jar.
(d) A silver bowl.

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

8. The carriage that took Miss Barrett and Flush into town drove along what street in Chapter 2: "The Back Bedroom"?
(a) Tottenham Court Road.
(b) Oxford Street.
(c) Wimpole Street.
(d) Manning Street.

9. Who came and beat Flush when he attacked Mr. Browning in the hallway in Chapter Three?
(a) Miss Mitford.
(b) Mrs. Jameson.
(c) Miss Wilson.
(d) Miss Blagden.

10. Flush's first owner was offered quite a nice sum for Flush from whom?
(a) Mr. Barrett.
(b) Mr. Taylor.
(c) Mr. Kenyon.
(d) Dr. Pusey.

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

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

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

14. The date of Flush's birth was estimated to be early in what year?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1895.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What confused Flush about Miss Barrett's room?

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

3. What was the date when Mr. Browning first visited Miss Barrett?

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

5. What color gloves did Mr. Browning always wear?

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