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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 48, 49, 50, and 51.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two obsessions of Mrs. Poulteney?
(a) Vulgarity and rudeness.
(b) Wine and fine cuisine.
(c) Dirt and immorality.
(d) Lawlessness and cursing.

2. Why does Mrs. Poulteney insist Sarah stay when Mrs. Tranter calls with Charles and Ernestina in tow?
(a) She feels it her duty to embarrass Charles and Ernestina and make Sarah uncomfortable.
(b) She wants Sarah to give her opinion about the young couple.
(c) She wants to flaunt her wealth and position.
(d) She needs Sarah to pour the tea.

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

4. What expression applied to a boy or girl is guaranteed to despoil their reputation for life?
(a) One of the Ware Commons kids.
(b) One of the Dairy Lane kids.
(c) One of the Lyme Green kids.
(d) One of the Cobb walker kids.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam tell Charles he wants two hundred and eighty pounds for?

2. Why does Charles not tell Mrs. Tranter and Ernestina of his chance meeting with Sarah on the Ware Commons?

3. When Charles and Sarah leave the secluded place, who do they meet coming up toward them?

4. What does Knowles explain the Victorian ending is all about?

5. How does the bright day affect Charles?

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