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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. What does Philip think women perpetually think about?
(a) Men.
(b) Knitting.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Social engagements.

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

3. What tradition does Philip decide to start up again in December?
(a) The Christmas party for the tenants.
(b) Taking dinner baskets to all of the tenants.
(c) Gift giving.
(d) Christmas caroling.

4. How does Rachel treat Philip when introducing him to Rainaldi?
(a) Like he is her suitor.
(b) Like he is a sullen child.
(c) Like he is no one important.
(d) Like a nervous girl introducing a boy to her father for the first time.

5. Why does Philip think it is strange to have Rachel in church with him?
(a) Because it makes him feel like he is married.
(b) Because he suspects people are wondering who she is.
(c) Because he doesn't normally go to church.
(d) Because he cannot remember the last woman to sit in his pew.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Philip upset about the arrival of his godfather's letter regarding Rachel's allowance?

2. Which of the following clauses does the attorney suggest that Philip add to the document giving Rachel the estate?

3. What marks Ambrose's favorite spot on the estate's lands?

4. What day does Philip intend to give Rachel the estate?

5. What does Philip say that the people at church may suspect of Italians?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rachel do that makes Philip tease her that she will become a midwife?

2. Why is Nick Kendall upset about Philip giving Rachel the pearl collar?

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

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

5. What does Philip say is the difference between Mrs. Pascoe's femininity and Rachel's femininity?

6. Why does Philip ask Rachel what she would have done if Ambrose had left her the estate with Philip to look after it?

7. Why does Philip say that the people at church will be so interested in Rachel?

8. What does Philip plan to do to appease Louise after he failed to visit her because he was riding with Rachel?

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

10. Why does Rachel say she asked Ambrose not to tell Philip about the baby she was pregnant with?

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