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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Charles and Ernestina dressed on their walk down the Cobb?
(a) In raincoats and boots.
(b) In riding habits.
(c) Very stylishly for the day.
(d) In clothes suited to the taste of Lyme Regis.

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

3. 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 has been imagining unfaithfulness of Charles' part.
(c) She wants to know if a shop keeper delivered the flowers.
(d) She frowns because she is ashamed of herself.

4. What criminal idea pops into Sam's head?
(a) Blackmailing Ernestina to prevent him from destroying Charles.
(b) Finding Sarah and killing her to protect Charles.
(c) Finding Sarah and forcing her to have sex with him.
(d) Blackmailing Charles because he knows about his meeting with Sarah.

5. 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 schoolboy.
(c) A race horse.
(d) A double amputee.

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

7. 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.

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

9. When Sarah turns to look at Charles, how does he describe the look?
(a) Dark and mystifying.
(b) Sensuous and compelling.
(c) Mysterious and inviting.
(d) As though she looked right through him.

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

11. What resolution does Charles make on his way back to Lyme?
(a) To avoid Sarah of his own free will.
(b) To break off his engagement to Ernestina.
(c) To go to confession.
(d) To have physical relations with Sarah the next time they meet.

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

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

14. In the meeting in the secluded place, what does Sarah talk about?
(a) She talks about the hypocarcy of the people of Ryme.
(b) She talks about wanting to marry and have children.
(c) She confesses what she did and why she did it.
(d) She talks about her innocence.

15. What does Charles say to Sarah about forgiving her sin?
(a) That he did not see what she did as a sin.
(b) That he will not withhold his forgiveness.
(c) That she had not sinned against him.
(d) That she must forgive herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles enjoy about his relationship to Sam?

2. What does Charles intend to do on his outing?

3. What annoying habit did Aunt Tranter have which causes Ernestina consternation?

4. What causes Sarah and the lieutenant to be thrown together in Capt. Talbot's house?

5. On the bright, sunny morning in Lyme, how does Ernestina awaken?

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