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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had imported American rapping spirits to Knebworth?
(a) Mr. Kenyon.
(b) Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
(c) Mr. Landor.
(d) Mr. Thomas Beames.

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

3. The parade that passed the Brownings house in Chapter 5: "Italy" was in celebration of whom?
(a) Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
(b) Lord Stanley.
(c) Mr. Boyd.
(d) The Grand Duke.

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

5. When was Virginia Woolf born?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1882.

6. Who did Elizabeth Barrett Browning discover had died when she returned to Rome in 1860?
(a) Mary
(b) Arabel.
(c) Henrietta.
(d) Sarah.

7. According to the author in Chapter 5: "Italy," Miss Wilson still had the conscience to walk out of a picture gallery "struck back by the indecency of" what?
(a) Michelangelo's David.
(b) The patrons.
(c) The Venus.
(d) The Mona Lisa.

8. Whom did Flush dream of saying "Bad dog! Bad dog!"
(a) Miss Mitford.
(b) Miss Wilson.
(c) Henrietta.
(d) Miss Blagden.

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

10. Whitechapel was in a triangular space of ground at the bottom of what road?
(a) Tottenham Court Road.
(b) Manning Street.
(c) Wimpole Street.
(d) Vere Street.

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

12. What year was it when Flush was stolen?
(a) 1846.
(b) 1839.
(c) 1853.
(d) 1851.

13. When the Brownings took Flush where, "all the splendours of its woods had merely bored him" in Chapter 5: "Italy"?
(a) Florence.
(b) Vallombrosa.
(c) Blessington.
(d) Pisa.

14. 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) The Satirist.
(d) True Irony.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Miss Barrett tell the cab driver to take her and Miss Wilson?

2. What did Mrs. Browning say Flush went out and did the with other dogs every day in Pisa in Chapter 5: "Italy"?

3. How many bowls of water did Flush lap down upon returning to Elizabeth's room after his kidnapping?

4. The author describes Mrs. Taylor as being ""fat enough to have had an easy _____________."

5. Where is Elizabeth Barrett Browning buried?

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