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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main conflict when Philip comes to stay at the vicarage?
(a) Where he should stay.
(b) How he can provide for his own needs.
(c) What day he should bathe.
(d) How much he should eat.

2. How does Philip feel when he reads letters from Emily?
(a) Uncomfortable.
(b) Loved.
(c) Comforted.
(d) Happy.

3. Who does Philip say is the only person who could have changed his mind about leaving school?
(a) Louisa.
(b) Gertrude.
(c) Mary Ann.
(d) Perkins.

4. What do some boys force Philip to show them?
(a) His foot.
(b) His mother's picture.
(c) His special leg brace.
(d) His box of clothes.

5. Where does Philip go to live after his mother dies?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Billingshire.
(c) Blackstable.
(d) Black Meadows.

6. How does Philip feel after he is intimate with Emily?
(a) Disgusted.
(b) Scared.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Surprised.

7. How does Philip feel when he is encouraged to make friends with the rich Englishman?
(a) Used.
(b) Excited.
(c) Resentful.
(d) Nervous.

8. What does Philip want to finish before he returns to Blackstable?
(a) His poem.
(b) His studies.
(c) His book.
(d) His painting.

9. What is the main question Philip asks Cronshaw?
(a) What is the meaning of life?
(b) Who is God?
(c) What should I do with my life?
(d) How can one be happy?

10. Where is the woman from who runs the art school?
(a) Canada.
(b) Australia.
(c) America.
(d) England.

11. What is the surname of the church warden?
(a) Grins.
(b) Grimes.
(c) Gripes.
(d) Graves.

12. Who raised the ideas of romance in Philip's mind?
(a) Hedwig.
(b) Weeks.
(c) Hayward.
(d) Perkins.

13. Why does the girl assigned to guide Philip disapprove of Lawson?
(a) He is French.
(b) He is too old to attend school.
(c) He does not take his art seriously.
(d) He does not have one specialty.

14. What time of day is it when Philip is woken up at the beginning of the book?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Middle of the night.
(c) Mid morning.
(d) Early evening.

15. What exhausts Philip about Hayward?
(a) His racism.
(b) His selfishness.
(c) His ignorance.
(d) His inability to make decisions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the church warden never talk to the vicar?

2. How does Philip get along with Hayward?

3. What does Louisa make for every Sunday meal?

4. What is Cronshaw's profession?

5. What does the girl in the boarding house do when her uncle tells her to come home?

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