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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 that Charles had not guessed?
(a) That his uncle is leaving his estate to charity.
(b) That his uncle is planning on marrying.
(c) That his uncle has located a long lost son.
(d) That his uncle has received word of his connection to Sarah.

2. After parting from Sarah and leaving Sam and Mary, what are Charles' thoughts?
(a) That he has been scarred for life.
(b) That he is now like Sarah.
(c) That Sam cannot be trusted with his secret.
(d) The he has been playing with fire.

3. Why does Sarah take the risk of not going by the back way around the dairy the morning she is seen by two walkers?
(a) She is thinking too hard and does not notice which way she went.
(b) She thinks it is too early for anyone else to be about.
(c) She decides to be brazen and go where she pleases.
(d) She is late for Mrs. Poulteney's reading.

4. Why does Mrs. Poulteney insist Sarah stay when Mrs. Tranter calls with Charles and Ernestina in tow?
(a) She wants to flaunt her wealth and position.
(b) She feels it her duty to embarrass Charles and Ernestina and make Sarah uncomfortable.
(c) She needs Sarah to pour the tea.
(d) She wants Sarah to give her opinion about the young couple.

5. What is Sam's dream about Mary?
(a) She is the attraction in his gentlemen's shop that brings in customers.
(b) She secretly has a large dowry.
(c) She marries him and has ten children.
(d) She wantonly gives herself to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles observe inside the house?

2. What investments had Charles' father made?

3. What is Charles' plan for maintaining distance from Sarah.

4. What terrible image does Mrs. Talbot have from the literature she reads?

5. What does Knowles say is the most common symptom of wealth in 1867?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Ernestina angry after Charles returns from London?

2. In Lyme, by some strata of society, Sarah Woodruff is known as the French lieutenant's whore. Ernestina has another name for her. Why and what is it?

3. Why is Mrs. Poulteney troubled by the parable of the widow's mite?

4. What is special about the Ware Commons?

5. How does Sarah insist that the county is filled with women who are outcasts?

6. What is Sarah's gift that makes her more intelligent than most Victorian women?

7. What makes Ernestina laugh uncontrollably and Aunt Tranter fear she and Charles might be having a quarrel?

8. What is the explanation for Mrs. Poulteney's idea that the Ware Commons evokes Sodom and Gomorrah in her mind?

9. What is Mrs. Poulteney's idea about God?

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

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