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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. Why didn't Jordan ask for Elizabeth's hand in marriage?
(a) He is in love with someone else.
(b) He has no desire to be married.
(c) He wants someone with a bigger dowry.
(d) He thinks she is ugly.

2. What does Jordan say about himself?
(a) That he is not stingy.
(b) That he is still hurting from the day before.
(c) That he is not interested in extortioners.
(d) That he is an honorable man.

3. Who comes to the ship the next day?
(a) Jordan's father.
(b) Jordan's mother.
(c) Jordan's grandmother.
(d) Jordan's brother Tony.

4. What does Tony suggest everyone do?
(a) Get some rest.
(b) Not believe yet that Jordan is gone.
(c) Go to the church to pray.
(d) Move to Hawthorne.

5. What does Sir Roderick Carstairs think of Elizabeth's behavior?
(a) It is no worse than most married women.
(b) It is impeccable.
(c) He has no interest in talking about Elizabeth's behavior.
(d) She is behaving badly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jordan's family eventually learn?

2. What does Alexandra say that Jordan said about his grandmother?

3. Where do Jordan and Alexandra stop that night?

4. How does the information about her husband affect Mrs. Lawrence?

5. Where do Alexandra and Jordan retire for the night?

Short Essay Questions

1. About what does Jordan change his mind and how does Alexandra respond? How does this scene begin a change in Jordan?

2. What happens to Alexandra for three days after Jordan agrees to Mrs. Lawrence's demand?

3. What does Jordan see when he looks out the window after being in bed with Lady Catherine Harrington?

4. What does Jordan say about women when he hears Lady's Catherine's indifference?

5. What does Alexandra immediately ask when the party arrives at Hawthorne and how does she occupy her time at Hawthorne?

6. Briefly describe the discussion about caterpillars that Alexandra and her grandfather have.

7. How does Alexandra change physically over the next few months?

8. What happens nine years later that makes Jordan decide to stop having sexual relations with married women?

9. What does Alexandra hear that spurs her into action?

10. What does Alexandra get on the way to Hawthorne?

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