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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Sarah think about Christians?
(a) She thinks they will help her.
(b) She thinks they are charitable.
(c) She thinks they are very intelligent.
(d) She thinks they are crueller than heathens.

4. What shop in Lyme is somewhat famous?
(a) The Old Fossit Shop.
(b) The Curious Cigar Shop.
(c) The Lyme Stationery Shop.
(d) The Wicker Shop.

5. What coincidence saves Charles from having to face Ernestina with his lies of omission?
(a) Aunt Tranter has a heart attack.
(b) A telegram from London saying he is urgently needed.
(c) Ernestina has been called back to London.
(d) A fire at Aunt Tranter's house.

6. What has happened to Sarah while Charles is away from Lyme?
(a) She has begun planning a wedding.
(b) She is begged to come work for the vicar.
(c) She has become ill.
(d) She is being gossiped about since Mrs. Fairley saw her emerging from the Ware Commons.

7. What is it about Ernestina that allows Sir Robert to disinherit Charles so easily?
(a) Ernestina's large dowry that Charles will receive on their marriage.
(b) Ernestina's toyal title.
(c) Ernestina's ability to help Charles in his digging.
(d) Ernestina's prim and proper Victorian ways that will be an asset to Charles.

8. Why did Charles urge Ernestina to disagree with him about something?
(a) He does not want people to think theirs iss a Christian marriage.
(b) He is feeling like a Turkish pasha because of her deferring to him.
(c) It is just another of his silly jokes that Ernestina seldom understands.
(d) He is sure that he is not always right and wants her opinion.

9. How do the simpering daughters of the Lady seduce Charles in order to snare him as a husband for one of them?
(a) Wear seductive clothes.
(b) Pretend they were interested in his paleontology.
(c) Propose marriage to him.
(d) Get him alone in the garden.

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

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

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

13. 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 toilets are in full view of the windows.
(c) The rooms are too small and stuffy.
(d) The architecture is too plain and stark.

14. How does Knowles use these changes to invite suspense?
(a) He states that Charles still does not guess.
(b) He suggests that something sinister is about to happen.
(c) He makes the reader expect great things for Charles.
(d) He suggests that the uncle has regained his health.

15. What causes Sarah and the lieutenant to be thrown together in Capt. Talbot's house?
(a) They share adjoining rooms.
(b) The lieutenant only speaks French and Sarah interprets.
(c) She is working for Capt. Talbot as secretary.
(d) The lieutenant has a broken leg and Sarah was his nurse.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Charles' father rid him of the desire to become a priest?

2. For what is Dr. Grogan well known in Lyme?

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

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

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

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