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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 32, 33, 34, and 35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Knowles say that the Victorians had thrown at them night and day in the same way we have sex thrown at us today?
(a) Overdressing
(b) Education
(c) Religion
(d) Nobility

2. At that time in London, what is socially becoming as important as good blood?
(a) Good money and good brains.
(b) Good connections and good experience.
(c) Good clothes and good houses.
(d) Good education and good travel.

3. What is Ernestina's great fear about marriage?
(a) The dread of being seen naked.
(b) The idea of becoming amother.
(c) The pain and brutality of sex.
(d) The sinfulness of sex.

4. Why is Charles going to London?
(a) To inform Ernestina's father of the changes in his fortune.
(b) To hire another manservant.
(c) To hire a lawyer to get rid of Mrs. Trotter.
(d) To collect money for travel to Europe.

5. Dr. Grogan says he knows more about ________ than what goes on in Sarah's mind.
(a) The number of stars in the sky.
(b) The times of the tides.
(c) The fossils on the beach.
(d) What goes on in Windsor Castle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Knowles say the novelist is?

2. What is Knowles' description of Mrs. Poulteney's unsuccessful appeal to knowledge?

3. What does Knowles say readers should now see as obvious?

4. What is it about Ernestina that attracts Charles?

5. What had the servants at Winsyatt gossiped about Charles as he visited his uncle.

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