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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 is Alexandra studying when she is distracted?
(a) Penmanship.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Astronomy.

2. What does Jordan realize about his mother?
(a) She is getting confused.
(b) She has a new lover.
(c) She is starting to look older.
(d) She is as beautiful as ever.

3. What does Alexandra think is unfair?
(a) That she cannot ride on a horse astride.
(b) That women cannot wear comfortable clothes like men.
(c) That she is having to leave her home at such a young age.
(d) That she is married to someone she does not love.

4. Where is Alexandra's father?
(a) He lives in Scotland.
(b) He has left the family.
(c) He is in India on a government job.
(d) Deceased.

5. Who is the Dowager Duchess of Hawthorne?
(a) Jordan's mother.
(b) Jordan's aunt.
(c) Jordan's great-aunt.
(d) Jordan's grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Alexandra, her mother and uncle?

2. Why does Jordan feel sorry for most women?

3. About what does Jordan say Alexandra should not worry?

4. Where is a soiree to take place soon?

5. What does Jordan think Alexandra would not have the courage to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Jordan when he leaves the Fair Winds to buy cigars and what does Alexandra do??

2. How does Alexandra try to comfort the Dowager Duchess?

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

4. What does Sir Roderick Carstairs say in response to Leticia Bildrup's opinion about Elizabeth Grangerfield?

5. How does Alexandra compare Jordan and herself?

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

7. Why is Mrs. Lawrence "useless," and how long has she been this way?

8. Who interrupts Jordan's conversation with his grandmother and what do they want?

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

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

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