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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 are the two obsessions of Mrs. Poulteney?
(a) Dirt and immorality.
(b) Wine and fine cuisine.
(c) Vulgarity and rudeness.
(d) Lawlessness and cursing.

2. What causes Sarah and the lieutenant to be thrown together in Capt. Talbot's house?
(a) She is working for Capt. Talbot as secretary.
(b) They share adjoining rooms.
(c) The lieutenant has a broken leg and Sarah was his nurse.
(d) The lieutenant only speaks French and Sarah interprets.

3. After Ernestina goes back to sleep, what happens in the kitchen downstairs?
(a) Sam comes and leaves Mary crying at the kitchen table.
(b) The men who have been searching for Sarah are there.
(c) Aunt Tranter finds Mrs. Fairley there.
(d) Charles returns and demands his breakfast.

4. What is Sam's dream about Mary?
(a) She secretly has a large dowry.
(b) She is the attraction in his gentlemen's shop that brings in customers.
(c) She marries him and has ten children.
(d) She wantonly gives herself to him.

5. What does Charles notice that shocks Ernestina?
(a) The way Charles seems to have changed.
(b) Dr. Grogan's conversational Irish reel.
(c) Aunt Tranter's flirtation with Dr. Grogan.
(d) The discussion about Sarah Woodruff.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarah think about Mrs. Tranter?

2. What does Sarah think about Christians?

3. How does Sarah appear as she stands at her windowsill at night looking out to sea?

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

5. What is Charles' thinking as he passes through the vast estate?

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