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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Why does Mrs. Talbot decide not to rehire Sarah Woodruff?
(a) She is aghast at the brazenness of Sarah for even coming to see her.
(b) She is afraid of her neighbors' gossip.
(c) Her husband flatly refuses to have Sarah back.
(d) She thinks Sarah's experience with the lieutenant would impair her concentration on the children.

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Sarah begin describing the French lieutenant to Charles?
(a) That he is handsome and a smooth talker.
(b) That he is brave and a gentleman.
(c) That he is pitiful and helpless.
(d) That he comes on to her immediately.

10. What gives Charles a free day to go do some digging?
(a) Ernestina is upset and will not see him.
(b) Ernestina returns to London.
(c) Ernestina has a migraine.
(d) Ernestina falls on Aunt Tranter's stairs.

11. What does Mrs. Poulteney say of rumors about Mary, Mrs. Tranter's maid?
(a) That she had been walking on the Ware Commons.
(b) This this morning she was seen talking to a person.
(c) That she had been seen at the pub.
(d) That she was meeting a young man behind the dairy.

12. What is it about Ernestina that attracts Charles?
(a) She stands to inherit a great fortune.
(b) She is so nearly the prim little moppet; yet not quite.
(c) She is beautiful by male standards.
(d) She is daring and adventurous.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What revelation does Sarah make to Charles about the French lieutenant?

2. How does Knowles picture Sam?

3. What is Sarah's attitude toward fashion?

4. Who does Ernestina tease her Aunt Tranter about?

5. Where does Charles establish his quarters after his father's death?

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