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

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

3. After Sarah goes to work for Mrs. Poulteney, how does she size up her employer?
(a) She learns to keep her mouth shut at all times and at all costs.
(b) She understands her and how to handle her like a skilled cardinal handles a weak pope.
(c) She is indifferent to Mrs. Poulteney's quirks of behavior.
(d) She sees Mrs. Poulteney as a tyrant and tries to warn the staff when she is coming.

4. What happened to Charles' mother?
(a) She fell into the sea on a boat outing.
(b) She died in childbirth to a stillborn girl.
(c) She ran off with an Italian.
(d) She died of tuberculosis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the bright day affect Charles?

2. What is it about Ernestina that attracts Charles?

3. At that time in London, what is socially becoming as important as good blood?

4. What is the action between Charles and his servant, Sam, on the bright sunny morning in Dorset?

5. What shop in Lyme is somewhat famous?

(see the answer key)

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