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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what year was Lord Stanhope in possession of a crystal ball?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1852.

2. When was Virginia Woolf's Orlando published?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1928.

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

4. What was a controversial 19th century British newspaper which featured reports of scandals involving well known residents of London?
(a) The Scrutiny.
(b) The Scandal.
(c) True Irony.
(d) The Satirist.

5. Virginia Woolf was a part of what group of writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists?
(a) The Vicious Circle.
(b) The Bloomsbury Group.
(c) The Algonquin Round Table.
(d) The Westminster Group.

6. When was Poems Before Congress written?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1860.

7. Who suggested to Sir Edward Lytton that a committee should be appointed by the government to get the facts?
(a) Lord Stanley.
(b) Mr. Landor.
(c) George Clayton Tennyson.
(d) Signor Righi.

8. The faces of the men that Elizabeth Barrett saw in the ghetto were inspiration for what later work?
(a) Poems Before Congress.
(b) Aurora Leigh.
(c) Casa Guidi Windows
(d) The Seraphim, and Other Poems.

9. What did Mr. Browning accuse Barnard Gregory of stealing in Chapter 4: "Whitechapel"?
(a) Gold.
(b) Money.
(c) Characters.
(d) Governmental positions.

10. When Mr. Browning sheared Flush, what did the dog look like?
(a) A rat.
(b) A duck.
(c) A lion.
(d) A fox.

11. Who walked about London and observed everything from the poorest to the poshest neighborhoods?
(a) George Clayton Tennyson.
(b) Mr. Thomas Beames.
(c) Dr. Pusey.
(d) Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

12. What kind woman would pause and take a sugared biscuit from her reticule when passing Flush?
(a) Miss Mitford.
(b) Miss Isa Blagden.
(c) Miss Wilson.
(d) Henrietta.

13. What was the fifth day of Flush's imprisonment in Chapter 4: "Whitechapel"?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Wednesday.

14. Where did Miss Barrett take Flush after leaving London in Chapter 5: "Italy"?
(a) Pisa.
(b) Florence.
(c) Siena.
(d) Vallombrosa.

15. Who would pass Flush and would hurry by and shake his fist at him in mock fury?
(a) Mr. Horne.
(b) Mr. Landor.
(c) Dr. Pusey.
(d) Dr. Mitford.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Barnard Gregory die?

2. What did Miss Barrett begin calling herself in Chapter 5: "Italy"?

3. Flush seemed to understand that it was the policy of the railroad that dogs had to ride __________.

4. The author writes in Chapter Six: "The End," that early in the nineteenth century the Countess of where had bought a crystal ball from a magician?

5. Chapter 5: "Italy" begins in the middle of what month?

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