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

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

3. What revelation does Sarah make to Charles about the French lieutenant?
(a) That he is married.
(b) That he has never even written to her.
(c) That he beat her before he left England.
(d) That he is the father of her child.

4. What investments had Charles' father made?
(a) Importing and politics.
(b) Shipping and rock collecting.
(c) Coal mining and religion.
(d) Rail stocks and gambling.

5. On the bright, sunny morning in Lyme, how does Ernestina awaken?
(a) Bright and bubbly, anxious to see Charles.
(b) Too late to see Charles who had already left for a walk.
(c) Afraid that exposure to sunlight would darken her skin.
(d) In a mood that the brilliance of the morning only aggravated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Knowles say the novelist is?

2. How did Charles' father rid him of the desire to become a priest?

3. What does Charles notice that shocks Ernestina?

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

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

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