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

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

3. What does Charles do when Sam comes into his room the following morning?
(a) Apologizes
(b) Order him out of his room
(c) Fire Sam
(d) Curse Sam

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

5. What does Freeman recognize about the times?
(a) They are difficult times with so many new things coming into favor.
(b) They are changing in a world of rapid progress.
(c) They are politically unstable.
(d) They represent the age of overindulgence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles discover from Mrs. Endicott?

2. What does Knowles say readers should now see as obvious?

3. How is Aunt Tranter affected in all of the problems?

4. What humiliation is Charles forced to undergo?

5. What does Charles attempt to do with Sarah?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Knowles discuss the reason for Sam and Mary going to the barn?

2. Describe the events after Charles leaves Lyme and goes back to Exeter.

3. Explain the significance of Sarah's only smile at Mrs. Poulteney after she questions the old lady's relationship to God.

4. How does Charles attempt to undo the damage done by being caught with Sarah by Sam and Mary?

5. What happens in the Tranter house that day?

6. Is tearing himself away from Sarah in the old barn the last shock of the day for Charles? Explain.

7. In the Victorian view of propriety, what step does Charles make when his train pulls into Exeter?

8. Why does Charles escape a second time to London.

9. Why does Sarah, the prostitute, put her clothes back on?

10. After Charles cannot locate Sarah, even with private detectives, what action does he take?

(see the answer keys)

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