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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 Elinor learn from Anne Steele?
(a) Lucy knows Elinor is in love with Edward
(b) Edward has broken off his engagement with Lucy
(c) She is engaged to Colonel Brandon
(d) Lucy has take ill

2. What illness does Marianne contract?
(a) Scurvy
(b) Cold
(c) Consumption
(d) Plague

3. Why is Colonel Brandon pleased?
(a) Because of the attention Marianne bestows on him
(b) Because he has inherited some money
(c) Because Marianne is better
(d) Because Mrs Dashwood buys him a thank you gift

4. What does Marianne decide in this chapter?
(a) She is over Willoughby
(b) She loves Brandon
(c) She still loves Willoughby
(d) She has been very naive

5. Why does Colonel Brandon leave?
(a) He cannot bear to see Marianne in pain
(b) To fetch Mrs. Dashwood
(c) He has to meet Miss Williams
(d) He has to prepare the parsonage for Edward

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Dashwoods travel to next?

2. Who do the Dashwoods see while out?

3. What does Marianne agree to accept?

4. Who arrives at the cottage unexpectedly?

5. Who enters the room when Lucy and Elinor are having a conversation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mrs. Dashwood one of the more unselfish characters in the book?

2. Is Willoughby a better match for Marianne than the Colonel?

3. Is John completely dominated by his wife?

4. Why do you think Fanny and Lady Middleton get along so well?

5. Is Brandon an honorable man?

6. Does Elinor make the right decision in telling her about Willoughby?

7. What does Elinor's unhappy reaction show about her logical character?

8. Why does Austen present John Dashwood as a comic figure?

9. Do you think the Dashwoods like John?

10. Does Marianne's illness change her?

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