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

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

3. In trying to be Victorian polite, what does Ernestina call the woman they see on the Cobb?
(a) The lady of the night.
(b) The French lieutenant's. . .woman.
(c) A woman just a bit crazy.
(d) Old Mrs. Poulteney's companion.

4. 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 dying of starvation.
(c) A picture of Sarah begging on the streets.
(d) A picture of Sarah after jumping from a cliff.

5. What is it about Ernestina that attracts Charles?
(a) She is so nearly the prim little moppet; yet not quite.
(b) She is daring and adventurous.
(c) She stands to inherit a great fortune.
(d) She is beautiful by male standards.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the bright day affect Charles?

3. Where does Charles establish his quarters after his father's death?

4. What investments had Charles' father made?

5. Why is Mrs. Poulteney shocked to hear that Sarah is walking on Ware Commons?

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