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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11, 12, and 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are Charles' grandfather's archeological finds housed?
(a) Westminster Abby.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) Windsor Castle.
(d) The British Museum.

2. What prompts Mrs. Poulteney to ask about someone to take into her service?
(a) Her need for a nurse during her illness.
(b) Her fear of hell and her need for a companion to write for her.
(c) The vicar's insistance that she take someone needy in.
(d) Her image in the community as being benevolent.

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

4. What is Ernestina's reaction to the flowers Sam delivers from Charles?
(a) She frowns because she has been imagining unfaithfulness of Charles' part.
(b) She wants to know if a shop keeper delivered the flowers.
(c) She jumps from bed and dances around the room.
(d) She frowns because she is ashamed of herself.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Knowles say is the most common symptom of wealth in 1867?

4. Upon whose word does Mr. Forsythe, vicar of Lyme, rely to recommend Sarah?

5. How does Knowles pull himself into the novel in Chapter 13?

(see the answer key)

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