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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gimmick does Knowles use as an ending of the story in Chapter 44?
(a) The story as it would have been written in Victorian England.
(b) The breakup of Charles' engagement to Ernestine.
(c) A flashback to the time Ernestine was sixteen.
(d) A story within a story that has no ending.

2. What does Sarah suggest Mrs. Poulteney do with her severance pay?
(a) Buy some rum and drink it.
(b) Give it to Mrs. Fairley for services rendered.
(c) Buy an instrument of torture to use on the staff.
(d) Put it in the church collection plate.

3. What new service does Charles use to try and locate Sarah?
(a) Personal ads in the Times
(b) Radio advertisement
(c) Police all points bulletins
(d) Private investigators

4. What does Charles discover from Mrs. Endicott?
(a) Sarah has returned to Lyme.
(b) Sarah has fallen and hurt her ankle.
(c) Sarah sends word that she will not see Charles.
(d) Sarah has left the hotel and did not leave a forwarding address.

5. What does Knowles acknowledge as the modern gentleman?
(a) The capitalist
(b) The educator
(c) The scientist
(d) The politician

6. After the prostitute gets into bed, Charles stares down at her and asks her name. What is her answer?
(a) Sarah
(b) Victoria
(c) Ernestina
(d) Mary

7. What is Mrs. Endicott's Bible?
(a) Her accounts ledger
(b) Her weekly newspaper
(c) Her almanac
(d) Her horoscope

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

9. Why does Charles go to Dr. Grogan?
(a) To get his emotional support .
(b) To get him to go see about Ernestina.
(c) To see if he has lost his mind.
(d) To get the doctor to deny the rumors of his breakup.

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

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

12. What humiliation is Charles forced to undergo?
(a) Signing a letter of guilt for Mr. Freeman.
(b) Being expelled from his club.
(c) Appearing in court for breech of promise.
(d) Losing his home in Kensington.

13. What does Dr. Grogan do in his speech to Charles?
(a) Admits to having an affair himself with Sarah.
(b) He paints a picture of Sarah as an opportunist who had led Charles on.
(c) Suggests that Charles run away with Sarah.
(d) Shames Charles for his stupidity.

14. What discovery does Charles make that hits him like a thunderbolt?
(a) That Sarah had planned his seduction carefully.
(b) That Sarah is a virgin.
(c) That he is free to leave Sarah forever.
(d) That he had not wanted to make love to Sarah.

15. How does Dr. Grogan threaten Charles?
(a) That he will tell everyone what Charles has done if he doesn't leave Lyme.
(b) That he will help Ernestina sue for breach of promise and see charles ruined.
(c) That he will sign the papers sending Charles to the insane assylum.
(d) That if he does not leave within the hour he will return with the largest horse whip he can find.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the cab deliver Charles and the prostitute?

2. What does Dr. Grogan suggest?

3. How does Charles proceed to break off with Ernestina and return to Sarah?

4. What does Charles do when Sam comes into his room the following morning?

5. What happens when Sam comes to Charles' hotel room?

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