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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marlow do with the jewels?
(a) He puts them in his locked luggage.
(b) He hides them under the bed.
(c) He puts them in thleir carriage.
(d) Not knowing what they are, he deposits them with Mrs. Hardcastle.

2. Why does Mr. Hardcastle not go back into the house?
(a) He thinks there is someone with a gun in the thicket.
(b) He hasn't finished his walk.
(c) He wants to find out how Tony got so muddy.
(d) He is sure he heard two voices and wants to know who else is there.

3. What does Kate say to herself about Marlow.
(a) That her father will not believe his story.
(b) That he is worse than she thought.
(c) That he must leave at once.
(d) That he was the one she had stooped to conquer.

4. What does Hardcastle say that girls like?
(a) To be put in their place.
(b) To think that they are tormenting a man.
(c) To be offered expensive jewels.
(d) To be played with and rumpled a little, too.

5. What does Mrs. Hardcastle discover when she goes to help Tony with the robber?
(a) It is Hastings and Constance trying to get away.
(b) There are three men jumping on Tony.
(c) Tony is fighting a bush.
(d) It is Mr. Hardcastle and not a robber at all.

6. Why is Marlow so sure that Kate will surrender herself to him?
(a) She sent him a note to meet her later.
(b) Her eyes tell him that she is interested in him.
(c) She invited him up to see her embroidery which he takes as a sexual meaning.
(d) She is toying with him by not allowing him to kiss her.

7. What subterfuge do Constance and Tony carry out when Mrs. Hardcastle is in the room?
(a) They pretend to court one another.
(b) They act shy around each other.
(c) They go to opposite sides of the room.
(d) They pretend they are planning a wedding.

8. Where does Tony tell his mother that they are located?
(a) Just on the outskirts of London but they need help.
(b) About twenty miles from their house where the road made a hard turn they had missed.
(c) He tells her he has no idea where they are because things happened so fast.
(d) About forty miles from home in a dangerous place for robbers.

9. Who enters while Kate is struggling to get her hand away from Marlow?
(a) Lady Betty Blackleg.
(b) Tony Lumpkin.
(c) Constance.
(d) Mr. Hardcastle.

10. What does Marlow do in front of his father?
(a) Demand to see the barmaid.
(b) Offer to pay for any damages done to Hardcastle's property.
(c) Asks Mr. Hardcastle's forgiveness one more time.
(d) Rant at the cruelty of his deception.

11. What fate is Hastings resigned to as he and Constance go back to the house.
(a) Waiting three years before they can marry.
(b) Losing Constance to Tony.
(c) Being confronted by Sir Charles.
(d) Going to prison for stealing the jewels.

12. What does the maid question about Kate's plan?
(a) Whether Marlow will stay in the house.
(b) Whether Kate can get her father to agree to her plan.
(c) Whether she can act the part of a barmaid.
(d) Whether Constance will go along with the sceme.

13. What does Hardcastle tell Kate he plans to do?
(a) Have Diggory watch Marlow's every move.
(b) Send for Sir Charles Marlow to come.
(c) Challenge Marlow to a duel.
(d) Send Marlow back to his father.

14. What does Mrs. Hardcastle promise to give Constance right away?
(a) A trip to her aunt's house in London.
(b) A wedding dress.
(c) Her garnets.
(d) The jewels.

15. After Marlow runs from the room, how does Hardcastle confront his daughter.
(a) He asks what she is up to.
(b) He laughs at the ridiculous scene he just witnessed.
(c) He tells her to go put on her finery.
(d) He shames her for lying to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marlow tell Hardcastle about his servants.

2. How does Kate as the barmaid rebuff Marlow.

3. What has Tony done with his mother and Constance?

4. What does the maid tell Kate that Marlow thinks.

5. What is Constance resolved to do at this point?

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