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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14, 15, 16, and 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sarah appear as she stands at her windowsill at night looking out to sea?
(a) Like a preliminary to jumping from the window.
(b) Like a ghost searching for reality.
(c) Like an angel looking for lost ships.
(d) Like a hysterical woman who has lost all.

2. What prompts Mrs. Poulteney to ask about someone to take into her service?
(a) The vicar's insistance that she take someone needy in.
(b) Her fear of hell and her need for a companion to write for her.
(c) Her need for a nurse during her illness.
(d) Her image in the community as being benevolent.

3. What terrible image does Mrs. Talbot have from the literature she reads?
(a) A picture of Sarah dying of starvation.
(b) A picture of Sarah begging on the streets.
(c) A picture of Sarah after jumping from a cliff.
(d) A picture of Sarah reduced to working in a house of ill repute.

4. What is the action between Charles and his servant, Sam, on the bright sunny morning in Dorset?
(a) Playful and teasing.
(b) At odds with one another.
(c) Silent and moody.
(d) Stern and overbearing.

5. How do the simpering daughters of the Lady seduce Charles in order to snare him as a husband for one of them?
(a) Propose marriage to him.
(b) Wear seductive clothes.
(c) Get him alone in the garden.
(d) Pretend they were interested in his paleontology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristics make Aunt Tranter very special?

2. Why does Charles not tell Mrs. Tranter and Ernestina of his chance meeting with Sarah on the Ware Commons?

3. How does the butler sum up the feelings of Mrs. Poulteney's staff?

4. How does Knowles picture Sam?

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

(see the answer key)

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