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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 16?

2. What does Lizzie Rose pack her belongings in, in Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 27?

3. What year is noted in the opening of Part One: “Fog”?

4. What word from Part One: “Fog” refers to a cotton fabric made in various degrees of fineness and often printed, woven, or embroidered in patterns?

5. How many years ago did Grisini take Parsefall from a workhouse, according to the narrator in Part One: “Fog”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What objects from Grisini’s room does Lizzie Rose display for Parsefall in Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 20?

2. What discovery do Lizzie Rose and Parsefall make in Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 18? How do they respond to this discovery?

3. Where do Lizzie Rose and Parsefall go for their “evening out” in Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 21? What are their impressions?

4. What is Lizzie Rose doing in the beginning of Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 27? Why?

5. What actions does Cassandra consider and commit regarding the dilemma she faces in the Prologue: “Fire”?

6. What do the police do when they arrive in Grisini’s apartment in Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 8?

7. What encounter takes place between Parsefall and Dr. Wintermute in Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 25?

8. What leads up to the physical confrontation between Lizzie Rose and Grisini in Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 15?

9. Whom does Clara encounter on her way to bed in Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 5? How is this exchange described?

10. What information does Mrs. Pinchbeck relate of Grisini in Part One: “Fog,” Chapter 16?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of the shared birth date between Cassandra, Marguerite, and Clara? Why does Cassandra try to summon Clara to her when she learns of this? What is the result?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Cassandra want Grisini to come to her? How does she contact him? How does Grisini respond to this summons? What does this say about the relationship between Grisini and Cassandra?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the setting established in the beginning of Splendors and Glooms. During what time period does the story take place? What clues from the author indicate this? Where specifically does the story begin? What years historically comprise the “Victorian era”?

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