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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of the dog thief who stole Flush and held him for ransom?
(a) Lord Stanley.
(b) Mr. Taylor.
(c) Mr. Boyd.
(d) Mr. Horne.

3. In the summer, what was Flush beset by that made him edgy and despondent?
(a) Fleas.
(b) Ticks.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Dementia.

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

5. Upon Flush's first inspection of the dogs in Italy, he wondered if what had no jurisdiction in Italy?
(a) The Kennel Club.
(b) The Royal Navy.
(c) Scotland Yard.
(d) MI6.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the spring of 1847 the Brownings and Flush moved where?

2. Who did Elizabeth Barrett Browning discover had died when she returned to Rome in 1860?

3. What year was it when Flush was stolen?

4. The author writes that Flush "was the sole aristocrat among a crowd of" what, in Chapter 5: "Italy"?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Mr. Thomas Beames's impressions of Whitecastle described in Chapter Four?

2. In what ways did Flush treat Mr. Barrett as his servant?

3. What did Flush do after being awoken suddenly in Chapter Six?

4. Where did Flush go when he couldn't take Mrs. Barrett's strange behavior anymore? What did he do?

5. What did Miss Barrett discover about the ransom in Chapter Four? What did she threaten to do?

6. What genre is the book Flush: A Biography? How does the author use the unique narrative to express her own thoughts?

7. How had Flush changed in the beginning of Chapter Six: "The End"?

8. Describe Flush's death. What was Mrs. Browning doing when Flush passed away?

9. How had Miss Barrett changed when Flush returned from his kidnapping?

10. What romantic freedoms did Flush begin to enjoy in Chapter Five? How did the Brownings react?

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