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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the objection of Mrs. Poulteney and others like her to the Assembly Rooms?
(a) The toilets are in full view of the windows.
(b) They promote whist, cigar smoking, balls, and other pleasures.
(c) The rooms are too small and stuffy.
(d) The architecture is too plain and stark.

2. How does Sarah appear as she stands at her windowsill at night looking out to sea?
(a) Like an angel looking for lost ships.
(b) Like a ghost searching for reality.
(c) Like a preliminary to jumping from the window.
(d) Like a hysterical woman who has lost all.

3. For what is Dr. Grogan well known in Lyme?
(a) Supporting Mrs. Poulteney's Victorianism.
(b) Making house calls.
(c) Retelling stories of his experiences.
(d) Taking long walks in the country.

4. How does Knowles pull himself into the novel in Chapter 13?
(a) With questions regarding his methods and purposes for writing the story.
(b) As a novel critique presupposing what the real critics might say.
(c) As a bystander who can attest to the truth of the story.
(d) As a counterpart to Charles whose experiences have been different.

5. Why is Charles thought of as an interesting young man?
(a) Because he was easy to catch in a matriomonial trap.
(b) Because he was as well known as Disraeli and Gladstone.
(c) Because there was no cynicism about him.
(d) Because his travels had rubbed away the patina of seriousness.

6. What news does Ernestina give Charles on his return?
(a) That Sarah Woodruff has called asking for him.
(b) That Mrs. Fairley has seen Sarah and Charles together.
(c) That Mrs. Poulteney has dismissed Sarah Woodruff.
(d) That Sarah Woodruff has jumped off the cliff.

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

8. Why does Sarah take the risk of not going by the back way around the dairy the morning she is seen by two walkers?
(a) She thinks it is too early for anyone else to be about.
(b) She is thinking too hard and does not notice which way she went.
(c) She decides to be brazen and go where she pleases.
(d) She is late for Mrs. Poulteney's reading.

9. What is Sam's dream about Mary?
(a) She marries him and has ten children.
(b) She secretly has a large dowry.
(c) She is the attraction in his gentlemen's shop that brings in customers.
(d) She wantonly gives herself to him.

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

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

12. Upon whose word does Mr. Forsythe, vicar of Lyme, rely to recommend Sarah?
(a) Sarah herself.
(b) His maid who knows Sarah personally.
(c) Mr. Fursey-Harris, vicar of Chramouth.
(d) Mrs. Talbot.

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

14. In trying to be Victorian polite, what does Ernestina call the woman they see on the Cobb?
(a) A woman just a bit crazy.
(b) The lady of the night.
(c) Old Mrs. Poulteney's companion.
(d) The French lieutenant's. . .woman.

15. When Charles tells Sam not to see Mary until he has cleared it with Mrs. Tranter, to what does Sam compare himself?
(a) A Derby duck.
(b) A race horse.
(c) A schoolboy.
(d) A double amputee.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where are Charles' grandfather's archeological finds housed?

3. After parting from Sarah and leaving Sam and Mary, what are Charles' thoughts?

4. What transpires between Mrs. Tranter and Sarah?

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

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