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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 40, 41, 42, and 43.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Knowles say that the Victorians had thrown at them night and day in the same way we have sex thrown at us today?
(a) Overdressing
(b) Nobility
(c) Religion
(d) Education

2. What is Charles' quandary over Sarah's disappearance?
(a) He suspects she may be prepared to blackmail him.
(b) If she is alive, he knows where she probably is but cannot tell anyone.
(c) If she is still alive, he has a responsibility to her.
(d) If she committed suicide, she may have left a not implicating him.

3. Where does Charles go after leaving the Freeman mansion?
(a) To his club on St. James
(b) To the theatre
(c) To his flat in Kensington
(d) To his best friend's house

4. How does the butler sum up the feelings of Mrs. Poulteney's staff?
(a) Madam, I should rather the poor house than another week under your roof.
(b) Madam, I shall shake the dust from my shoes as I leave.
(c) You, madam, have not devined that slavery is over.
(d) Meanness and gluttony describe you perfectly, madam.

5. What is Knowles' opinion of the way Charles is dressed for his brisk walk?
(a) Not heavy enough for the Dorset weather.
(b) Perfectly appropriate.
(c) Modern and ahead of the times.
(d) Overly Victorian in its utility.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mrs. Endicott's Bible?

2. What is Sam's dream about Mary?

3. What is it about Ernestina that allows Sir Robert to disinherit Charles so easily?

4. What revelation does Sarah make to Charles about the French lieutenant?

5. What causes Sarah and the lieutenant to be thrown together in Capt. Talbot's house?

(see the answer key)

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