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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Knowles say the novelist is?
(a) An authoritarian because he or she writes only by the rules laid down by others.
(b) A god because he or she creates.
(c) A plagerist because he or she copies from real life stories.
(d) A deceiver because he or she seldom tells the truth.

2. What does Sarah give Charles?
(a) Two perfect fossils she found.
(b) A lock of her hair.
(c) An invitation to meet her at night.
(d) A handkerchief.

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

4. What is Ernestina's reaction to the flowers Sam delivers from Charles?
(a) She jumps from bed and dances around the room.
(b) She frowns because she is ashamed of herself.
(c) She frowns because she has been imagining unfaithfulness of Charles' part.
(d) She wants to know if a shop keeper delivered the flowers.

5. What rests on a table at the bay window of Dr. Grogan's house?
(a) Surgical instruments.
(b) A collection of fossils.
(c) A copy of Grey's Anatomy.
(d) A Gregorian telescope.

6. When Charles and Sarah leave the secluded place, who do they meet coming up toward them?
(a) Mrs. Poulteney and Dr. Grogan.
(b) Mr. and Mrs. Talbot.
(c) Ernestina and Aunt Tranter.
(d) Sam and Mary.

7. What does Sarah ask of Charles?
(a) That he take her away.
(b) One hour of his time.
(c) That he teach her paleontology.
(d) That he loan her money.

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

9. What is it that Charles had not guessed?
(a) That his uncle has received word of his connection to Sarah.
(b) That his uncle is planning on marrying.
(c) That his uncle has located a long lost son.
(d) That his uncle is leaving his estate to charity.

10. How did Charles' father rid him of the desire to become a priest?
(a) By taking Charles to a brothel.
(b) By threatening to cut off his inheritance.
(c) By increasing his allowance.
(d) By sending him to Paris for six months.

11. Where are Charles' grandfather's archeological finds housed?
(a) Westminster Abby.
(b) Windsor Castle.
(c) The Louvre.
(d) The British Museum.

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

13. What is Sarah's position in Charmouth?
(a) Housekeeper.
(b) Milk maid.
(c) Governess.
(d) Librarian.

14. What is Knowles' description of Charles as a palaeontologist?
(a) As an authority many scientists deferred to.
(b) As much ahead of his time.
(c) As gifted by lazy.
(d) As an ungifted scientist.

15. What terrible image does Mrs. Talbot have from the literature she reads?
(a) A picture of Sarah after jumping from a cliff.
(b) A picture of Sarah reduced to working in a house of ill repute.
(c) A picture of Sarah dying of starvation.
(d) A picture of Sarah begging on the streets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Charles thought of as an interesting young man?

2. What does Knowles say has served as a substitute for experience in Sarah Woodruff?

3. What expression applied to a boy or girl is guaranteed to despoil their reputation for life?

4. When Charles tells Sam not to see Mary until he has cleared it with Mrs. Tranter, to what does Sam compare himself?

5. Why is Mrs. Poulteney shocked to hear that Sarah is walking on Ware Commons?

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