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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. How are Charles and Ernestina dressed on their walk down the Cobb?
(a) In riding habits.
(b) Very stylishly for the day.
(c) In clothes suited to the taste of Lyme Regis.
(d) In raincoats and boots.

2. What does Sarah think about Christians?
(a) She thinks they are crueller than heathens.
(b) She thinks they will help her.
(c) She thinks they are charitable.
(d) She thinks they are very intelligent.

3. Immediately after Charles discovers that Sarah is not dead, what happens in Ernestina's bedroom?
(a) She rereads her diary entry from that morning.
(b) She calls for Sam to interrogate him about Charles.
(c) She decides to get dressed and go looking for Charles.
(d) She wakes from a dream in which Charles is lost at sea.

4. What is the special relationship between Charles and Mrs. Hawkins?
(a) She always bakes his favorite desserts.
(b) She is like a mother to him because of her nurturing when he was a boy.
(c) She bears an uncommon resemblance to Charles' late mother.
(d) She knows secrets about Charles that she keeps to herself.

5. What does Knowles say modern society has destroyed by throwing over the aura of mystery about sex?
(a) The openness to talk about it
(b) The shame
(c) The need for it
(d) The pleasure

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Poulteney say of rumors about Mary, Mrs. Tranter's maid?

2. What has happened at the prostitute's house?

3. What imagery does Knowles insert at the point in the conversation where Sarah admits to ceasing her cruelty with the lieutenant?

4. What is Mrs. Endicott's Bible?

5. What double duty does Sam perform at Mrs. Tranter's door?

(see the answer key)

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