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

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

3. What kind of morning greets Charles as he begins his walk to meet Sarah?
(a) It is beautiful and serene, leaving Charles feeling as though it were for him paradise lost.
(b) It is gray and rainy, symbolic of the gloom into which he is walking.
(c) It is a foggy morning that compared to the blindness Charles feels about himself.
(d) It is cold and threatening, making Charles feel as though he is walking into an icy death.

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

5. What does Knowles explain the Victorian ending is all about?
(a) An exercise in literary speculation.
(b) Ernestina's dream the night before Charles returns to Lyme.
(c) Charles' imagination of how things would end.
(d) A means of explaining the Victorian mentality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles decide to do?

2. To what does Knowles compare Charles' official decision to go ahead with his marriage to Ernestina?

3. What does Charles attempt to do with Sarah?

4. Why does Charles not feel bad about his privileged class?

5. What does Sarah say when Charles says he must break his engagement?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Sarah finds life in Exeter.

2. What transpires with Charles and his friends at the club?

3. In reality, what does Charles do when he pulls into Exeter and it looks like it is about to rain?

4. Explain Mr. Freeman's reaction to the news that Charles will probably not fall heir to a title.

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

8. Explain Dr. Grogan's advice to Charles upon learning that Sarah is alive and expecting a visit from him.

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

10. Describe Charles' actions after leaving the Freeman mansion.

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