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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 type of honor is the only one with which women are born?
(a) Their virginity.
(b) Motherhood.
(c) The men they produce.
(d) Spiritual.

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

3. What happens when Jordan goes out to buy cigars?
(a) He gets involved in a dice game.
(b) He meets up with his cousin and best friend.
(c) He is attacked and knocked unconscious.
(d) He cannot find any shops open that late.

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

5. Where does Jordan take Alexandra?
(a) To her home.
(b) To the nearby Inn.
(c) To his uncle's estate.
(d) To the town constable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jordan see coming towards him as he defends himself?

2. What does Alexandra say she is not that Jordan is?

3. Where do Jordan and Alexandra go after everyone has left?

4. What does Alexandra study very intensely over the next several days?

5. Why does everyone suddenly jump up in excitement?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Lawrence think will save her family?

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

4. What does Jordan's family learn about his whereabouts on the third day of waiting for news?

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

6. How does Alexandra compare Jordan and herself?

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

8. What does Jordan decide about having sex with Alexandra?

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

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

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