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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 has served as a substitute for experience in Sarah Woodruff?
(a) Her first class education.
(b) Lectures from her father.
(c) The advice of older women.
(d) Fiction and poetry.

2. What is Knowles' description of Mrs. Poulteney's unsuccessful appeal to knowledge?
(a) A look of solid comprehension.
(b) A look somewhat like a white Pekinese.
(c) A blank stare signifying nothing.
(d) A successful appeal to disapproval.

3. Dr. Grogan says he knows more about ________ than what goes on in Sarah's mind.
(a) The fossils on the beach.
(b) What goes on in Windsor Castle.
(c) The number of stars in the sky.
(d) The times of the tides.

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

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

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

7. What revelation does Sarah make to Charles about the French lieutenant?
(a) That he is the father of her child.
(b) That he beat her before he left England.
(c) That he has never even written to her.
(d) That he is married.

8. What had the servants at Winsyatt gossiped about Charles as he visited his uncle.
(a) That Charles deserves better treatment from his uncle.
(b) That rich people are never to be understood.
(c) That he is getting his comeuppance for not having visited his uncle more.
(d) That Mrs. Trotter will be kind to Charles.

9. 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.

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

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

12. What happened to Charles' mother?
(a) She died in childbirth to a stillborn girl.
(b) She died of tuberculosis.
(c) She ran off with an Italian.
(d) She fell into the sea on a boat outing.

13. What does Charles intend to do on his outing?
(a) Stay away from the Cobb.
(b) Walk to the next county to hunt for fossils.
(c) Look for Sarah to talk to her.
(d) Avoid going anywhere he might run into Sarah.

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

15. What is Charles' thinking as he passes through the vast estate?
(a) That Ernestina will not be up to running the great house.
(b) That he does not want to live there.
(c) That his uncle has let the place go.
(d) That is it soon to be his.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What coincidence saves Charles from having to face Ernestina with his lies of omission?

3. What is it about Ernestina that attracts Charles?

4. What is Sarah's attitude toward fashion?

5. What does Charles observe inside the house?

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