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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Ernestina to be unable to sleep?
(a) Her disappointment at seeing Charles so happy.
(b) The light flooding into her room.
(c) The sounds of a thunderstorm outside.
(d) Her behavior after learning that Charles is not inheriting Winsyatt.

2. After impulsively kissing Sarah, what does Charles do?
(a) Lays her down on the hay and makes love to her.
(b) Tells her to go to the White Lion and wait for him.
(c) Suggests that she go to London as his mistress.
(d) Pushes Sarah away and runs out of the shed.

3. 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.

4. How does Charles explain his separation from Ernestina when he visits the club.
(a) He says she is at home visiting her father and gave him the night off.
(b) He says he is on parole while she takes the Dorset waters.
(c) He says she is too busy planning the wedding.
(d) He says he had pressing business in London but she wanted to stay in Lyme.

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

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

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

8. Where is Charles twenty months later?
(a) Traveling abroad
(b) In the French Foreign Legion
(c) In America
(d) Back in Exeter

9. What is in the letter from Dr. Grogan?
(a) A suggestion of how he can continue with Sarah in secret.
(b) Information that Sarah has left Lyme.
(c) The thought that there is no need for confession or absolution.
(d) His report that the whole community is talking about charles.

10. What shocks Charles during his interview with Mr. Freeman?
(a) Freeman offers to buy Charles a title.
(b) Freeman suggests decreasing Ernestina's dowry.
(c) Mr. Freeman tells Charles that Ernestina is adopted.
(d) Freeman offers him a job in his business.

11. What does Charles observe about American women?
(a) He sees a shadow of Sarah in each of them.
(b) He thinks that they have no sense of style.
(c) He considers them too pristine.
(d) He sees them as no different from women in England.

12. After leaving the brothel, what does Charles do?
(a) Takes a carriage back to Lyme.
(b) Picks up a prostitute who resembles Sarah.
(c) Goes home alone to Kensington.
(d) Finds the nearest hotle and goes to sleep.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened at the prostitute's house?

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

3. Where does Sam go to work?

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

5. What does Freeman recognize about the times?

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