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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prompts Mrs. Poulteney to ask about someone to take into her service?
(a) Her need for a nurse during her illness.
(b) Her fear of hell and her need for a companion to write for her.
(c) Her image in the community as being benevolent.
(d) The vicar's insistance that she take someone needy in.

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

3. What has happened to Sarah while Charles is away from Lyme?
(a) She is begged to come work for the vicar.
(b) She has become ill.
(c) She has begun planning a wedding.
(d) She is being gossiped about since Mrs. Fairley saw her emerging from the Ware Commons.

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

5. How do the simpering daughters of the Lady seduce Charles in order to snare him as a husband for one of them?
(a) Get him alone in the garden.
(b) Wear seductive clothes.
(c) Propose marriage to him.
(d) Pretend they were interested in his paleontology.

6. What is it about Ernestina that attracts Charles?
(a) She stands to inherit a great fortune.
(b) She is beautiful by male standards.
(c) She is so nearly the prim little moppet; yet not quite.
(d) She is daring and adventurous.

7. 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 is the father of her child.
(d) That he beat her before he left England.

8. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN takes place in what historical era?
(a) Roman.
(b) Victorian.
(c) Elizabethan.
(d) Edwardian.

9. What does Knowles say is the most common symptom of wealth in 1867?
(a) Neurosis.
(b) Responsibility.
(c) Indulgence.
(d) Boredom.

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

11. How does Knowles picture Sam?
(a) He is a man who cannot understand Charles' jokes.
(b) He is an older man with a great deal of polish.
(c) He is humbly devoted to Charles and not into self aggrandizement.
(d) He is young, fond of idling, and always has a straw or sprig of parsley in his mouth.

12. What does Charles notice that shocks Ernestina?
(a) The discussion about Sarah Woodruff.
(b) Aunt Tranter's flirtation with Dr. Grogan.
(c) Dr. Grogan's conversational Irish reel.
(d) The way Charles seems to have changed.

13. Where does Charles establish his quarters after his father's death?
(a) In Essex.
(b) In Kensington.
(c) In Balmory.
(d) In Wales.

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

15. What is Ernestina's great fear about marriage?
(a) The pain and brutality of sex.
(b) The dread of being seen naked.
(c) The sinfulness of sex.
(d) The idea of becoming amother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles observe inside the house?

2. What are the two obsessions of Mrs. Poulteney?

3. What is Charles' quandary over Sarah's disappearance?

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

5. What characteristics make Aunt Tranter very special?

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