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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 Mrs. Lawrence decide to do?
(a) Get Jordan to marry Alexandra.
(b) Request money from Jordan.
(c) Get the King to do something about the bandits.
(d) She has decided yet.

2. What does Alexandra ask about herself?
(a) If she is a caterpillar waiting to become a beautiful butterfly.
(b) If she wants to marry her childhood sweetheart.
(c) If she would ever use astronomy.
(d) If she wants to join a convent.

3. Why doesn't the Dowager want to say anything to Alexandra about her small social errors?
(a) She does not want to dampen Alexandra's spirits.
(b) She does not want Alexandra to decide to go home.
(c) She asks her daughter-in-law to correct Alexandra.
(d) She thinks Alexandra is smart enough to correct them on her own.

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

5. What does Alexandra's mother want Jordan to do?
(a) Give them lots of money.
(b) Marry Alexandra.
(c) Tell Alexandra's fiance that nothing happened.
(d) Find Alexandra a proper suitor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alexandra first explore at Hawthorne?

2. What is the Duchess' main complaint about Alexandra?

3. Who comes to the ship the next day?

4. What is Alexandra going to do at Mary O' Toole's party for Mary's brother?

5. What does Jordan think about the idea of seducing Alexandra?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the Dowager Duchess of Hawthorne and how does she react to Jodan's tale from the night before?

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

3. What do Jordan and Alexandra do after their wedding?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Alexandra tell Jordan when she is finally able to speak with him?

9. What does Jordan say to Lady Catherine about what he just saw and what is her reply?

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

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