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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 is Knowles' description of Mrs. Poulteney's unsuccessful appeal to knowledge?
(a) A look of solid comprehension.
(b) A successful appeal to disapproval.
(c) A look somewhat like a white Pekinese.
(d) A blank stare signifying nothing.

2. Of what does Ernestina warn Charles about the people of Lyme?
(a) He will be invited to a series of boring lectures in the town hall.
(b) People will turn their backs on strangers.
(c) People expect strangers to be examined and spoken to.
(d) Everyone will think he is royalty and bow to him.

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

4. Why does Sarah take the risk of not going by the back way around the dairy the morning she is seen by two walkers?
(a) She thinks it is too early for anyone else to be about.
(b) She is late for Mrs. Poulteney's reading.
(c) She decides to be brazen and go where she pleases.
(d) She is thinking too hard and does not notice which way she went.

5. How are Charles and Ernestina dressed on their walk down the Cobb?
(a) In riding habits.
(b) In raincoats and boots.
(c) Very stylishly for the day.
(d) In clothes suited to the taste of Lyme Regis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Immediately after Charles discovers that Sarah is not dead, what happens in Ernestina's bedroom?

2. What does Mrs. Poulteney say of rumors about Mary, Mrs. Tranter's maid?

3. What is Sarah's position in Charmouth?

4. When Sarah and Charles meet again on the path, what does Charles observe about her?

5. What does Mrs. Poulteney insist as requisites for a companion?

(see the answer key)

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