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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. Why is Charles thought of as an interesting young man?
(a) Because his travels had rubbed away the patina of seriousness.
(b) Because he was as well known as Disraeli and Gladstone.
(c) Because there was no cynicism about him.
(d) Because he was easy to catch in a matriomonial trap.

2. When Charles tells Sam not to see Mary until he has cleared it with Mrs. Tranter, to what does Sam compare himself?
(a) A race horse.
(b) A double amputee.
(c) A Derby duck.
(d) A schoolboy.

3. What expression applied to a boy or girl is guaranteed to despoil their reputation for life?
(a) One of the Cobb walker kids.
(b) One of the Dairy Lane kids.
(c) One of the Lyme Green kids.
(d) One of the Ware Commons kids.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Knowles pull himself into the novel in Chapter 13?

3. Why does Sarah take the risk of not going by the back way around the dairy the morning she is seen by two walkers?

4. What does Knowles say is the most common symptom of wealth in 1867?

5. After Sarah goes to work for Mrs. Poulteney, how does she size up her employer?

(see the answer key)

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