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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. Where does Sarah stay in Exeter?
(a) In a shelter for the homeless
(b) In a cheap rooming house
(c) In a convent
(d) In the Endicott Family Hotel

2. What is Charles' plan for maintaining distance from Sarah.
(a) To gently remind her of their social difference.
(b) To tell Ernestina all about his meetings with her.
(c) To put a time limit on their meetings.
(d) To avoid her at all costs.

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

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

5. What double duty does Sam perform at Mrs. Tranter's door?
(a) He delivers Charles' bouquet for Ernestina and a smaller one for Mary, the maid.
(b) He recites a poem to Mary as he gives her the flowers for Ernestina.
(c) He delivers the flowers for Ernestina and an invitation to a dance for Mary.
(d) He delivers the flowers along with a singing telegram.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristics make Aunt Tranter very special?

2. How does Sam try to start gossip with Mrs. Rogers at the Kensington house?

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

4. What criminal idea pops into Sam's head?

5. What does Charles admit to Dr. Grogan about his feelings for Ernestina?

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