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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 has served as a substitute for experience in Sarah Woodruff?
(a) Lectures from her father.
(b) The advice of older women.
(c) Her first class education.
(d) Fiction and poetry.

2. What does Knowles say readers should now see as obvious?
(a) That Sam had proposed marriage to Mary.
(b) That Sam and Mary had been to that barn many times before.
(c) That Mary is pregnant with Sam's baby.
(d) That Sam is planning to abandon Mary.

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

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

5. What is Sarah's attitude toward fashion?
(a) Total indifference.
(b) Comfortable with Victorian constrictions.
(c) Interest in only the latest fashions.
(d) Tending toward the masculine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What double duty does Sam perform at Mrs. Tranter's door?

3. What is the outcome of Charles' interview with Ernestina's father, Mr. Freeman?

4. What is the objection of Mrs. Poulteney and others like her to the Assembly Rooms?

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

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