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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Changes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Latimer trust?
(a) Everyone.
(b) No one.
(c) Only Bertha.
(d) Only his father.

2. What time will Latimer begin to feel his impending death come?
(a) Ten o'clock p.m.
(b) Noon.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Ten o'clock a.m.

3. Why does George Eliot give Latimer psychic powers?
(a) Because he wants readers to experience the story as though they were the one dying.
(b) To allow the story to be catagorized under Science Fiction.
(c) To show readers that Latimer is crazy.
(d) To make the story more believable.

4. Why is Latimer examined by a phrenologist?
(a) Becasue Latimer cannot sleep.
(b) Because Latimer has many bumps on his head.
(c) Because Latimer cannot eat.
(d) Because Latimer keeps getting sick.

5. Who does Latimer meet in Switzerland?
(a) Alfred.
(b) Charles Meunier.
(c) George Eliot.
(d) Mrs. Archer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What age was the narrator when his mother died?

2. What kind of writing is The Lifted Veil?

3. The first-person narrator and the main character of the story is _________.

4. During his death, Latimer thinks of what natural images?

5. What does Latimer pray to stay with?

(see the answer key)

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