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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. What begins to trouble Charles about his engagement to Ernestina?
(a) That he needs a less exciting existence so he could concentrate on rocks.
(b) That she is too flighty and unable to discuss anything with him calmly.
(c) That he has been too conventional in his choice and it is not like him at all.
(d) That Ernestina is far too young for him and would leave him for a younger man.

2. What is it about Ernestina that attracts Charles?
(a) She is so nearly the prim little moppet; yet not quite.
(b) She is beautiful by male standards.
(c) She is daring and adventurous.
(d) She stands to inherit a great fortune.

3. What shop in Lyme is somewhat famous?
(a) The Curious Cigar Shop.
(b) The Wicker Shop.
(c) The Lyme Stationery Shop.
(d) The Old Fossit Shop.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the two obsessions of Mrs. Poulteney?

3. What does Charles enjoy about his relationship to Sam?

4. What does Knowles say the novelist is?

5. What is Sarah's position in Charmouth?

(see the answer key)

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