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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which friend remains faithful to Lily after her aunt dies?
(a) Bertha Dorset.
(b) Gerty Farish.
(c) George Dorset.
(d) Judy Trenor.

2. What does Simon Rosedale tell Lily to do with the letters she purchased from Lawrence Selden's cleaning woman?
(a) Burn the letters.
(b) Give the letters back to Lawrence Selden.
(c) Give the letters to him for safekeeping.
(d) Use the letters to blackmail George and Bertha Dorset into clearing her name.

3. In book 2, chapter 8, what is Lily's social situation when Lily returns to the city after Simon Rosesale refuses to marry her ?
(a) She wants to sever her relationships with everyone in her former social circle.
(b) She is accepted back into her old social circle with the Trenors and the VanOsburghs.
(c) She is socially isolated.
(d) She is able to buy her way into a new social circle.

4. What is Lily's alternative to her new position?
(a) The run-down hotel in which she previously resided.
(b) Marriage to George Dorset.
(c) Working for Gus Trenor.
(d) Working as a cleaning woman in an orphanage.

5. How does Lily feel in her new position in book 2, chapter 9?
(a) Unhappy.
(b) Haughty.
(c) Excited.
(d) Intimidated.

6. Why does Lily decide she can't give Bertha Dorset the letters that Bertha and Lawrence Selden wrote to each other?
(a) She doesn't want to betray Bertha Dorset.
(b) Lily can't betray Lawrence Selden.
(c) She is afraid of revenge from Bertha Dorset.
(d) She is afraid the letters will create a relationship between Bertha Dorset and Lawrence Selden.

7. In book 2, chapter 6, what does Carry Fischer tell Lily about Bertha Dorset ?
(a) Bertha Dorset will lose everything if George Dorset divorces her.
(b) Lily should attempt to mend her relationship with Bertha Dorset.
(c) Bertha Dorset is interested in becoming friends with Lily again.
(d) Bertha Dorset is gossiping about Lily to the Gormers.

8. Why does Lily go to Alaska?
(a) Carry Fischer suggests that Lily find a new place to start over.
(b) Carry Fischer suggests there will be wealthy bachelors on the trip.
(c) Carry Fischer suggests Lily take her place with Carry Fischer's new family.
(d) Wealthy distant relatives of Lily live in Alaska.

9. What does Gerty Farish tell Ned Silverton's relatives about his relationship with Bertha Dorset?
(a) Bertha and Ned want to be together but don't want to marry.
(b) Bertha and Ned have married.
(c) Bertha Dorset wants to marry Ned, but can't because George Dorset won't give Bertha a divorce.
(d) Bertha Dorset ended her relationship with Ned.

10. What does Lily do because she doesn't have a job?
(a) She takes walks.
(b) She volunteers at a soup kitchen.
(c) She sits in her shabby room and stares out the window.
(d) She visits the friends in her new social circle.

11. In book 2, chapter 5, why does Carry Fischer apologize to Lily ?
(a) For having lunch alone with Lawrence Selden in Monte Carlo.
(b) For making Lily take care of the Welly Brys.
(c) For telling Lawrence Selden about the situation with the Italian prince in Europe.
(d) For not defending her to Bertha Dorset.

12. What does the exhaustion and the stress of the day cause Lily to do when she tries to sleep the night she visited Nettie Struther?
(a) She renews her prescription for the sleeping medication.
(b) She increases the dosage of the sleeping medication.
(c) She steals another prescription for the sleeping medication.
(d) She speaks to the chemist about strengthening her sleeping medication.

13. In book 2, chapter 12, what experience with Lawrence Selden does Lily say she will always remember?
(a) Meeting at the train on the way to Bellomont.
(b) Seeing each other in Europe.
(c) Seeing each other at the wedding of Lily's cousin, Jack Stepney.
(d) Their conversation at Bellomont.

14. In book 2, chapter 2, how does Bertha Dorset intend to clear her own name regarding the rumors about her and Ned Silverton?
(a) She is going to confront George.
(b) She is going to blame Lily for the problems between her and George.
(c) She is going to speak to Lawrence Selden.
(d) She is going to confront Carry Fischer about spreading gossip.

15. At four o'clock in the afternoon, who is supposed to visit Lily, but doesn't show ?
(a) Lawrence Selden.
(b) Gerty Farish.
(c) Simon Rosedale.
(d) Gus Trenor.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of book 2, chapter 13, how does Lily feel about the decisions she made regarding Simon Rosedale and Bertha Dorset?

2. In book 2, chapter 7, how does Lily feel when Simon Rosedale explains why he refuses to marry her?

3. In book 1, chapter 15, how does Lily respond to Simon Rosedale's marriage proposal ?

4. When Lily finds Simon Rosedale waiting for her at her room in book 2, chapter 11, what does he offer Lily?

5. Who convinces Lily to marry Simon Rosedale?

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