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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Decline.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Latimer like running water?
(a) Because he knows why it runs.
(b) Because it goes where it wishes.
(c) Because it is beautiful.
(d) Because it has melted from the mountains.

2. What does Latimer pray to stay with?
(a) The unknown.
(b) His wife.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

3. How does Latimer's father think the marriage will change Latimer?
(a) He will be able to bring money into the household.
(b) He will no longer be sick.
(c) He will stop having visions.
(d) He will finally take Alfred's place in society.

4. How does Bertha treat Latimer in public?
(a) She thinks him to be too young and sick to be a lover.
(b) She thinks him to be a match to Alfred and would be happy with either.
(c) She is always hugging him and holding his hand.
(d) She ridiclues him constantly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Latimer afraid to meet the new maid?

2. After their marriage, what functions do Latimer and Bertha attend regularly?

3. What happens when Latimer's father agrees to take him shopping?

4. Why does Bertha begin to hate Latimer?

5. What is the name of the new occupant of Bertha and Latimer's household?

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