View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Once Florence runs from the bedroom and out the door after the couple's first calamitous sexual experience, where does she ultimately end up in her desperate attempt to run away from the situation?
(a) On the mossy lawn.
(b) Down the beach.
(c) Back inside the honeymoon suite.
(d) Around the side of the hotel.

3. During what decade does the couple's wedding take place?
(a) The 1960s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1950s.

4. Florence thinks that the distance Edward puts between him and herself when he stops walking denotes what kind of feeling on Edward's part?
(a) Animosity.
(b) Unfriendliness.
(c) Cowardice.
(d) Fear.

5. What body of water does Chesil Beach border?
(a) The English Channel.
(b) Lake Windermere.
(c) The River Trent.
(d) The Thames.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the possible reasons Edward lists for Florence's decision to marry him, after he has decided that Florence does not really love him?

2. Whenever Edward gets a point in the tennis matches against Geoffrey, Geoffrey mutters a lecture that Edward thinks involves what?

3. Edward tells Florence that she carries "on as if it's" (175) what year?

4. What is NOT a sound Florence remembers hearing while "lying still" and "waiting" and feeling she is "in disgrace" (122) during her and her father's two-day boat crossing when she is 12 years old?

5. What color are Edward's eyes?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 308 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample