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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Charles' attitude toward Sam when he returns after his night out?
(a) He tells Sam to take that insolent look off his face.
(b) He warns Sam about being too nosey.
(c) He thanks Sam for helping him escape being seen by Mrs. Rogers.
(d) He regards Sam as a real friend unlike his friends at the club.

2. What has happened at the prostitute's house?
(a) Charles has been drinking heavily and begins throwing up when she said her name was Sarah.
(b) Charles passes out from too much to drink and sleeps in a chair.
(c) Charles has intercourse with the girl before finding out her name was Sarah.
(d) Sarah's little daughter comes in and gets into bed with them.

3. In the Victorian ending, what unlikely thing does Charles do?
(a) Tells Ernestine everything about him and Sarah.
(b) Pays for Sam's and Mary's wedding.
(c) Warns Ernestine never to mention the name of Tragedy.
(d) Goes into business with Ernestine's father.

4. What does Sam do after leaving Charles in his room at the Ship?
(a) Goes to the kitchen and orders a large meal charged to Charles.
(b) Finds himself a cheap hotel for the night.
(c) Goes and hides out of sight across from the Endicott's Family Hotel.
(d) Goes to the telegraph office to send a message to Mary.

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

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

7. What does Charles attempt to do with Sarah?
(a) Get her to go to Paris with him.
(b) Get her to pretend suicide.
(c) Give her money to go to Exeter and find a job.
(d) Help him make up a story about how he found her there.

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

9. What is Charles' interest in paleontology now?
(a) He has lost all interest and gives away his samples.
(b) He is excavating in Egypt.
(c) He has found a dynasaur.
(d) He works at it spasmotically.

10. How does Charles explain himself to Sam?
(a) That he has volunteered for the search party.
(b) That he is there on the instruction of Dr. Grogan.
(c) That he has come to tell Sarah never to bother him again.
(d) That he accidentally heard someone in the shed and went in to see who it was.

11. To what does Knowles compare Charles' official decision to go ahead with his marriage to Ernestina?
(a) His decision to confess to the vicar.
(b) His decision to go and look for Sarah.
(c) His official decision once to take Holy Orders.
(d) His decision to become a tradesman.

12. What is in the second letter Charles opens that morning?
(a) An apology
(b) A bill
(c) A blackmail message
(d) An address

13. Why does Charles not feel bad about his privileged class?
(a) He thinks everyone but the beggars look happy.
(b) He was raised to accept his privileged status.
(c) He is too unhappy to consider it.
(d) He is oblivious to the people around him.

14. When she couldn't sleep, what does Ernestina decide to do?
(a) Go to the kitchen and eat.
(b) Go for a walk.
(c) Write in her diary.
(d) Go look for Aunt Tranter.

15. After Ernestina goes back to sleep, what happens in the kitchen downstairs?
(a) The men who have been searching for Sarah are there.
(b) Sam comes and leaves Mary crying at the kitchen table.
(c) Charles returns and demands his breakfast.
(d) Aunt Tranter finds Mrs. Fairley there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sam and Mary see briefly at the shed door?

2. After Charles discovers that Sarah has vanished, who intrudes in his railway compartment?

3. What does Charles observe about American women?

4. Where does Sarah stay in Exeter?

5. What is the outcome of Charles' interview with Ernestina's father, Mr. Freeman?

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