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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. How does Rachel say the allowance she is given makes her feel?
(a) Humiliated.
(b) Angry.
(c) Ecstatic.
(d) Hopeless.

2. What is Rachel doing when Philip goes to Pelyn to talk to his godfather about an allowance for her?
(a) Sitting in the library reading.
(b) Visiting with tenants.
(c) Planting the trees and plants that were shipped from Italy.
(d) Riding her horse.

3. Who does Rachel suggest she will marry if she ever marries again?
(a) Nick Kendall.
(b) Seecombe.
(c) Rainaldi.
(d) Philip.

4. Why does Rachel describe Philip as the "despair of every mother?"
(a) He takes women on one date and never calls on them again.
(b) He is not interested in their daughters.
(c) He has terrible manners.
(d) He is a wealthy man, but he is unattractive.

5. What does Seecombe enjoy about having Rachel at the house?
(a) He likes having a woman to cook for.
(b) He likes greeting her visitors.
(c) He likes setting up tea parties for her female visitors.
(d) He likes having a female hostess for their dinner parties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Seecombe about Rachel's request to take a bath?

2. What does Philip warn Rachel of before they go to church together for the first time?

3. Who is at the house when Philip returns from seeing the attorney about giving Rachel the estate?

4. Who was the last person to wear the pearl collar before Philip gives it to Rachel?

5. What does Philip think women perpetually think about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rainaldi call Philip a "young Solomon?" (157)

2. Why is Philip so disconcerted by Rachel's tears when they argue about her allowance?

3. What excuse does Philip give for Rachel having overdrawn her account?

4. What made the relationship between Philip and Nick Kendall "cool" after Christmas?

5. What is the special about the pearl collar that Philip gives Rachel for Christmas?

6. After the Sunday dinner guests leave, what does Rachel say she likes about entertaining?

7. Why did Ambrose compare Rachel's spending to kleptomania?

8. Why does Philip put his muddy feet up on the footstool while Rachel tells him about her visits?

9. How does Philip say Ambrose dealt with things that hurt or shocked him?

10. Nick Kendall tells Philip that people he knows were horrified to learn that Ambrose was marrying Rachel. Why were they horrified?

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