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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 architecture is too plain and stark.
(b) The rooms are too small and stuffy.
(c) The toilets are in full view of the windows.
(d) They promote whist, cigar smoking, balls, and other pleasures.

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

3. What is Charles' quandary over Sarah's disappearance?
(a) If she is alive, he knows where she probably is but cannot tell anyone.
(b) He suspects she may be prepared to blackmail him.
(c) If she is still alive, he has a responsibility to her.
(d) If she committed suicide, she may have left a not implicating him.

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

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

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

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

8. What begins to trouble Charles about his engagement to Ernestina?
(a) That she is too flighty and unable to discuss anything with him calmly.
(b) That he needs a less exciting existence so he could concentrate on rocks.
(c) That Ernestina is far too young for him and would leave him for a younger man.
(d) That he has been too conventional in his choice and it is not like him at all.

9. 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 has no money to make the move.
(c) She says her education is not good enough.
(d) She says she knows no one in London.

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

11. What investments had Charles' father made?
(a) Rail stocks and gambling.
(b) Coal mining and religion.
(c) Importing and politics.
(d) Shipping and rock collecting.

12. How does the butler sum up the feelings of Mrs. Poulteney's staff?
(a) Madam, I should rather the poor house than another week under your roof.
(b) You, madam, have not devined that slavery is over.
(c) Madam, I shall shake the dust from my shoes as I leave.
(d) Meanness and gluttony describe you perfectly, madam.

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

14. After parting from Sarah and leaving Sam and Mary, what are Charles' thoughts?
(a) That Sam cannot be trusted with his secret.
(b) That he is now like Sarah.
(c) That he has been scarred for life.
(d) The he has been playing with fire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarah tell Mrs. Talbot before she leaves?

2. In trying to be Victorian polite, what does Ernestina call the woman they see on the Cobb?

3. What is Charles' thinking as he passes through the vast estate?

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

5. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN takes place in what historical era?

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