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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 about Margaret takes Mr. Thornton aback during the dinner party?
(a) Her rudeness.
(b) Her wit.
(c) Her beauty.
(d) Her lack of manners.

2. Who wrote "North and South"
(a) Edward Gaskell.
(b) Edmund Gaskell.
(c) Eleanor Gaskell.
(d) Elizabeth Gaskell.

3. During Mr. Lennox' first visit to Margaret in Helstone, what does he bring her?
(a) Roses.
(b) Chocolates.
(c) Beautiful fabric for a new dress.
(d) A letter from Edith.

4. What feelings does Mr. Thornton confess to Margaret after the incident with the striking workers at his home?
(a) That he thinks she has gone mad.
(b) That he finds her very strange and silly.
(c) That he is embarrassed she would be seen in public with him.
(d) That he loves her.

5. What lightens Mrs. Hale's miserable mood after the Hales have begun their journey to Milton?
(a) Being in London.
(b) Seeing all the fine shops.
(c) All of these answers are correct.
(d) Remembering shopping for her wedding dress.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the novel opens, who is Edith engaged to?

2. What does the Hale household decide about a water bed and Mrs. Hale?

3. What does Margaret confess to her father, after the Thorntons' dinner party, about her opinion of Mr. Thornton?

4. What is the one problem with the house Mr. Hale and Margaret pick out in Milton?

5. What advice does Mrs. Thornton give her daughter about Margaret?

Short Essay Questions

1. What first surprises Mr. Thornton about Margaret?

2. What causes the striking workers to head to the Thornton household to protest?

3. What surprises Margaret about the men in the North?

4. How does Mrs. Thornton feel about living so close to the mill?

5. Why is Dixon in a panic when Mr. Hale and Margaret return from the Thorntons' big dinner party?

6. What causes Mr. Hale to faint after he returns home from the dinner party at the Thorntons'?

7. How does Margaret prove to Bessy that she indeed knows suffering?

8. According to Bessy, what happens to people who work in the cotton factory that makes them sick?

9. What advice does Margaret give to Mr. Thornton about how to handle the growing crowd of striking workers outside his door?

10. Why does Bessy claim that Margaret never has suffered and is likely never to do so in the future?

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