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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 is Latimer's father happy about Latimer's marriage?
(a) Because it will be an honor to have her as part of the family.
(b) Because Bertha has money.
(c) Because it will unite the family with the Filmores.
(d) Because Bertha will mold Latimer into what she wants him to be.

2. Where does Latimer's father take him everyday?
(a) To poetry readings.
(b) To the doctor.
(c) Riding.
(d) To the movies.

3. What is another reason that Latimer thinks Bertha will not marry Alfred?
(a) Because she wants to become a doctor.
(b) Because she has plans to leave and travel the world.
(c) Beacuse she has already accepted to marry someone else.
(d) Because she secretly ridicules Alfred.

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

5. What causes Latimer's love interest to think that he loves her?
(a) Nothing, she has no clue.
(b) The poems that he writes for her.
(c) Him fainting the first time they met.
(d) The songs that he sings to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Latimer ask Bertha about her feelings for him prior to the wedding plans?

2. Where does the second part of The Lifted Veil start?

3. What sorrow finally allowed Latimer to feel sympathy towards his father?

4. After returning home from his walk with Bertha, what does Latimer learn?

5. Bertha tells Latimer that two of their servants are to be married. What does Bertha tell Latimer after the marriage announcement?

(see the answer key)

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