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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 and 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At that time in London, what is socially becoming as important as good blood?
(a) Good money and good brains.
(b) Good clothes and good houses.
(c) Good connections and good experience.
(d) Good education and good travel.

2. What is Knowles' description of Charles as a palaeontologist?
(a) As an authority many scientists deferred to.
(b) As much ahead of his time.
(c) As an ungifted scientist.
(d) As gifted by lazy.

3. What annoying habit did Aunt Tranter have which causes Ernestina consternation?
(a) She dips snuff in the parlor.
(b) She insists on being a chaperone for Ernestina and Charles.
(c) She sits at her window with a telescope.
(d) She is an inveterate gossip.

4. When Charles tells Sam not to see Mary until he has cleared it with Mrs. Tranter, to what does Sam compare himself?
(a) A race horse.
(b) A schoolboy.
(c) A double amputee.
(d) A Derby duck.

5. What does Sarah say to prevent her from leaving Lyme and going to London?
(a) She says she has no money to make the move.
(b) She says she knows no one in London.
(c) She says she would become what she is being accused of.
(d) She says her education is not good enough.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is obvious about the size of the dowry Ernestina will bring to a marriage?

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

5. Why is Charles thought of as an interesting young man?

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