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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Charles proceed to break off with Ernestina and return to Sarah?
(a) He leaves the country and does not tell anyone where he is.
(b) He has Sam tell Ernestina what he knows.
(c) He writes Sarah a letter and goes to tell Ernestina he cannot marry her.
(d) He arranges for Sarah and Ernestina to meet.

2. What does Charles decide to do?
(a) Send Sam to look for Sarah.
(b) Go back and tell Dr. Grogan the whole truth.
(c) Go out and look for Sarah himself.
(d) Open a bottle of brandy and get drunk.

3. What does Charles find inside the old shed?
(a) Ernestina who had come to catch Charles.
(b) Sarah's bonnet she had left behind.
(c) Sarah's clothes but no Sarah.
(d) Sarah sleeping on some hay.

4. What does Freeman recognize about the times?
(a) They are changing in a world of rapid progress.
(b) They are difficult times with so many new things coming into favor.
(c) They represent the age of overindulgence.
(d) They are politically unstable.

5. How does Charles think about the three-word message from Sarah?
(a) As a kind of trap and threat.
(b) As an oxymoron like proud begging.
(c) As her way of saying good-bye.
(d) As a way of saying thank you.

6. What does Sarah say when Charles says he must break his engagement?
(a) I never thought I would hear you say that.
(b) Does that mean you will marry me?
(c) You wouldn't be happy with that innocent girl anyway.
(d) I ask nothing of you. I am to blame.

7. What metaphor does Charles use to describe his guilt of lying about Sarah?
(a) Sir Lancelot casting blame on the Lady of the Lake.
(b) King Arthur lusting for Morgan Le Fey.
(c) Robin Hood denouncing Maid Marian as a strumpet.
(d) Sir Galahad showing Guinevere to be a whore.

8. Why does Charles go into the child's room?
(a) He thinks he hears the girl strangling.
(b) He suddenly feels very paternal.
(c) He is curious to see if there really is a child.
(d) She is crying and a male neighbor is banging on the wall.

9. Where does the cab deliver Charles and the prostitute?
(a) At a cheap hotel
(b) At Chrale's Kensington home
(c) At her flat
(d) At a bordello

10. What kind of morning greets Charles as he begins his walk to meet Sarah?
(a) It is gray and rainy, symbolic of the gloom into which he is walking.
(b) It is beautiful and serene, leaving Charles feeling as though it were for him paradise lost.
(c) It is a foggy morning that compared to the blindness Charles feels about himself.
(d) It is cold and threatening, making Charles feel as though he is walking into an icy death.

11. What does Charles' purse provide Sarah in Exeter?
(a) More little luxuries than she had ever had
(b) A reminder of her shame
(c) A roof over her head for one week
(d) A sense of indebtedness

12. What happens after that first kiss?
(a) Charles panics and runs out of her room.
(b) Sarah asks him to carry her to her bed before he leaves.
(c) Overcome with passion, Charles tears off his clothes and makes love to her.
(d) Charles removes Sarah's shawl and night gown.

13. What does Charles do when Sam comes into his room the following morning?
(a) Apologizes
(b) Fire Sam
(c) Curse Sam
(d) Order him out of his room

14. What is Sarah's reaction to Charles' guilt?
(a) She says she cannot believe he is like Mrs. Poulteney.
(b) She calls him stupid and behind the times.
(c) She accuses him of being like the French Lieutenant.
(d) She says all she wants is his happiness.

15. What does Knowles say readers should now see as obvious?
(a) That Sam is planning to abandon Mary.
(b) That Sam and Mary had been to that barn many times before.
(c) That Mary is pregnant with Sam's baby.
(d) That Sam had proposed marriage to Mary.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Knowles compare Charles' official decision to go ahead with his marriage to Ernestina?

2. What is Sarah's explanation for lying about Varguennes?

3. Where does Sam go to work?

4. What new service does Charles use to try and locate Sarah?

5. Why does Charles go to Dr. Grogan?

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