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

2. Why doesn't Alexandra want to marry Will?
(a) She loves him like a brother not like a prospective husband.
(b) She does not love him.
(c) He does not like philosophy.
(d) He likes to hunt and kill animals for sport.

3. What does Alexandra do after she recovers from her fall off her horse.
(a) Takes off her helm.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Shoots and kills one brigand.
(d) Smacks the one bandit with the flat of her sword.

4. What happens after Jordan and Alexandra have been on the road for several hours?
(a) They stop at the estate of a family friend of Jordan's.
(b) They are attacked.
(c) They stop to stretch their legs.
(d) They stop at an inn.

5. When does Elizabeth marry Lord Grangerfield?
(a) After Jordan went to war in Spain.
(b) She has no intentions of marrying him.
(c) She is only just now engaged to him.
(d) She married him as soon as he returned from war in Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jordan's family eventually learn?

2. Why do Alexandra and Jordan stop in London the next day?

3. How many years have passed when Chapter 2 opens?

4. How is Alexandra feeling the next day in the carriage?

5. How does Alexandra fare during the night after learning of Jordan's fate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Lawrence say in reply to Jordan's assertion that he is an honorable man?

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

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

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

6. What conversation do Mrs. Lawrence and her daughter have about Will Helmsley?

7. What is the history between Elizabeth Grangerfield and Jordan Hawthorne?

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

9. What surprises the Dowager about Alexandra, and what is Jordan's response?

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

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