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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Florence's nervous habit?
(a) She cracks her knuckles.
(b) She blinks rapidly.
(c) She raises her hand to her forehead to sweep away an imaginary hair.
(d) She crosses and recrosses her legs.

2. What item does Florence flirtatiously accept from Edward during their wedding night dinner at the hotel?
(a) A sprig of parsley.
(b) A cherry.
(c) A piece of melon.
(d) A ring of pineapple.

3. What is NOT one of Florence's favorite actions that the other girls at her hostel take?
(a) They bring blankets and fruit to ill girls.
(b) They meet every morning for prayers.
(c) They celebrate the other girls' birthdays.
(d) They are kind.

4. What is Florence's IQ?
(a) 152.
(b) 160.
(c) 144.
(d) 136.

5. What word brings to Florence's mind "nothing but pain, flesh parted before a knife" (8)?
(a) Entered.
(b) Penetration.
(c) Proclivity.
(d) Intercourse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of beach is Chesil Beach?

2. How old is Florence when her father Geoffrey takes her on each of the two boat trips to Carteret?

3. How old is Florence when she marries Edward?

4. Which department at Edward's college is rumored to be excitingly progressive?

5. What reason does the narrator give for both Florence and Edward's lack of hunger on the night after their wedding?

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