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

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

3. What would not shock Jordan?
(a) His mother lying with a commoner.
(b) Anything a woman does.
(c) His mother leaving his father.
(d) His mother making Jordan go to Eton.

4. What does Jordan think about the idea of seducing Alexandra?
(a) He feels excited about the idea.
(b) He thinks it will not be much of a challenge.
(c) It is like seducing a child.
(d) It repulses him.

5. Who are Filbert and Penrose?
(a) The servants Alexandra brings with her from home.
(b) Two of the bloodhounds in the kennels.
(c) Cousins to Jordan.
(d) Two children of the neighboring estate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes out of the shrubbery after the first person?

2. What does Alexandra tell Jordan when she first sees him after being measured for clothing?

3. Where does Jordan take Alexandra?

4. What does Lady Harrington know about her husband?

5. What does Alexandra's mother say when she lashes out at Jordan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Jordan tells Alexandra he likes about her and what is her reply?

6. What does Alexandra bemoan as she is riding in the carriage?

7. Where does Alexandra go right after the conversation with her mother about Will Helmsley?

8. How does Alexandra reveal her innocence and naivete at the inn the first night that the newly wedded couple stop?

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

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

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