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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 44, 45, 46, and 47.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Poulteney say of rumors about Mary, Mrs. Tranter's maid?
(a) This this morning she was seen talking to a person.
(b) That she was meeting a young man behind the dairy.
(c) That she had been seen at the pub.
(d) That she had been walking on the Ware Commons.

2. After impulsively kissing Sarah, what does Charles do?
(a) Pushes Sarah away and runs out of the shed.
(b) Lays her down on the hay and makes love to her.
(c) Suggests that she go to London as his mistress.
(d) Tells her to go to the White Lion and wait for him.

3. What does Knowles explain the Victorian ending is all about?
(a) Charles' imagination of how things would end.
(b) An exercise in literary speculation.
(c) Ernestina's dream the night before Charles returns to Lyme.
(d) A means of explaining the Victorian mentality.

4. What does Charles discover from Mrs. Endicott?
(a) Sarah sends word that she will not see Charles.
(b) Sarah has left the hotel and did not leave a forwarding address.
(c) Sarah has returned to Lyme.
(d) Sarah has fallen and hurt her ankle.

5. How does Dr. Grogan rebut Charles' objection that nothing improper passed between him and Sarah?
(a) He calls Charles a liar and orders him out of his house.
(b) He confesses that he saw them in his telescope.
(c) He uses the catechism about wishing for a sinful act being the same as doing it.
(d) He says Charles protests too much.

Short Answer Questions

1. What transpires between Mrs. Tranter and Sarah?

2. What does Sarah suggest Mrs. Poulteney do with her severance pay?

3. What gimmick does Knowles use as an ending of the story in Chapter 44?

4. What revelation does Sarah make to Charles about the French lieutenant?

5. What happens after that first kiss?

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