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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charles enjoy about his relationship to Sam?
(a) Watching Sam avoiding the Cockney maids.
(b) The educated, philosophical discussions they have.
(c) Watching Sam make a fool of himself.
(d) Daily chatter and a lapse into schoolboyhood.

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

3. 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 blank stare signifying nothing.
(d) A look somewhat like a white Pekinese.

4. What are the two obsessions of Mrs. Poulteney?
(a) Wine and fine cuisine.
(b) Vulgarity and rudeness.
(c) Lawlessness and cursing.
(d) Dirt and immorality.

5. What does Knowles say is the most common symptom of wealth in 1867?
(a) Indulgence.
(b) Neurosis.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Responsibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Charles and Ernestina dressed on their walk down the Cobb?

2. Why does Mrs. Talbot decide not to rehire Sarah Woodruff?

3. What is Knowles' description of Charles as a palaeontologist?

4. What characteristics make Aunt Tranter very special?

5. On the bright, sunny morning in Lyme, how does Ernestina awaken?

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