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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 52, 53, 54, and 55.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Knowles say that the Victorians had thrown at them night and day in the same way we have sex thrown at us today?
(a) Education
(b) Religion
(c) Nobility
(d) Overdressing

2. 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 dying of starvation.
(c) A picture of Sarah reduced to working in a house of ill repute.
(d) A picture of Sarah after jumping from a cliff.

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

4. 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) Pretend they were interested in his paleontology.
(c) Get him alone in the garden.
(d) Propose marriage to him.

5. Why does Charles go into the child's room?
(a) He is curious to see if there really is a child.
(b) He suddenly feels very paternal.
(c) She is crying and a male neighbor is banging on the wall.
(d) He thinks he hears the girl strangling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sarah stay in Exeter?

2. What happened to Charles' mother?

3. What does Sarah ask of Charles?

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

5. How does Knowles use these changes to invite suspense?

(see the answer key)

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