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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it about Ernestina that allows Sir Robert to disinherit Charles so easily?
(a) Ernestina's toyal title.
(b) Ernestina's ability to help Charles in his digging.
(c) Ernestina's large dowry that Charles will receive on their marriage.
(d) Ernestina's prim and proper Victorian ways that will be an asset to Charles.

2. How does the bright day affect Charles?
(a) He says he will go back to bed.
(b) He says it almost makes him not return to London.
(c) He says it is rare to see such brightness and he hates it.
(d) He says everything looks unreal.

3. Dr. Grogan says he knows more about ________ than what goes on in Sarah's mind.
(a) The number of stars in the sky.
(b) The times of the tides.
(c) What goes on in Windsor Castle.
(d) The fossils on the beach.

4. What happened to Charles' mother?
(a) She ran off with an Italian.
(b) She died of tuberculosis.
(c) She died in childbirth to a stillborn girl.
(d) She fell into the sea on a boat outing.

5. In trying to be Victorian polite, what does Ernestina call the woman they see on the Cobb?
(a) A woman just a bit crazy.
(b) The French lieutenant's. . .woman.
(c) Old Mrs. Poulteney's companion.
(d) The lady of the night.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles enjoy about his relationship to Sam?

2. After Sarah goes to work for Mrs. Poulteney, how does she size up her employer?

3. What is Sarah's attitude toward fashion?

4. What is the objection of Mrs. Poulteney and others like her to the Assembly Rooms?

5. When Charles tells Sam not to see Mary until he has cleared it with Mrs. Tranter, to what does Sam compare himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. The morning Ernestina has a migraine, describe Charles' acting as a moth being drawn to a flame.

2. What is special about the Ware Commons?

3. What is the meaning of the Victorian expression, "a gooseberry?"

4. What is Charles' delusion as he rides up the drive to his uncles estate?

5. What kind of day is it when Charles fist meets Sarah Woodruff alone?

6. What had prompted Charles and Ernestina to come to Lyme Regis?

7. When Charles and Sarah meet, how does Charles explain his agreeing to come?

8. What saves Charles from having to explain why he has been playing with fire?

9. Describe the conflict in Ernestina over her desire to have a husband and children.

10. How does Mrs. Poulteney attempt to stir up trouble for Mary during the visit in her drawing room?

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