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

2. 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.

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

4. What double duty does Sam perform at Mrs. Tranter's door?
(a) He delivers the flowers along with a singing telegram.
(b) He recites a poem to Mary as he gives her the flowers for Ernestina.
(c) He delivers Charles' bouquet for Ernestina and a smaller one for Mary, the maid.
(d) He delivers the flowers for Ernestina and an invitation to a dance for Mary.

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

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

7. What does Charles observe inside the house?
(a) That there does not seem to be anyone at home.
(b) That there is an air of gloom about the place.
(c) That some things have changed.
(d) That the carpets need to be changed.

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

9. When Sarah and Charles meet again on the path, what does Charles observe about her?
(a) That he had stronger biases against her than he thought.
(b) That she was a striking beauty in the Edwardian sense.
(c) That she is more intelligent and independent than she seemed.
(d) That she had on a completely different outfit from the last time.

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

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

12. 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 Derby duck.
(c) A schoolboy.
(d) A race horse.

13. What imagery does Knowles insert at the point in the conversation where Sarah admits to ceasing her cruelty with the lieutenant?
(a) A huge crash of the waves against the cliff.
(b) A sudden, strong wind.
(c) The cry of a lost sheep.
(d) A crow floating close overhead.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Knowles picture Sam?

2. What does Mrs. Poulteney insist as requisites for a companion?

3. What title did Charles' grandfather hold?

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

5. What is unimaginable to Charles in a relationship with a woman?

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