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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) The advice of older women.
(b) Fiction and poetry.
(c) Her first class education.
(d) Lectures from her father.

2. What is the action between Charles and his servant, Sam, on the bright sunny morning in Dorset?
(a) Playful and teasing.
(b) Stern and overbearing.
(c) Silent and moody.
(d) At odds with one another.

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

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

5. Why does Sarah take the risk of not going by the back way around the dairy the morning she is seen by two walkers?
(a) She decides to be brazen and go where she pleases.
(b) She is thinking too hard and does not notice which way she went.
(c) She thinks it is too early for anyone else to be about.
(d) She is late for Mrs. Poulteney's reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Knowles' opinion of the way Charles is dressed for his brisk walk?

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

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

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

5. What prompts Mrs. Poulteney to ask about someone to take into her service?

(see the answer key)

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