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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Volume 2, chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Emily looks for her book, what book of Valancourt's does she find instead?
(a) His Bible.
(b) His copy of Shakespeare's sonnets.
(c) His volume of Petrarch's poems.
(d) His copy of Shakespeare's plays.

2. Who scolds Emily for receiving a male visitor without supervision after Valancourt's visit?
(a) Annette.
(b) Madame Clairval.
(c) Madame Cheron.
(d) Theresa.

3. What is Emily's response when Valancourt suggests eloping?
(a) She agrees to elope.
(b) She insists on a formal ceremony with witnesses.
(c) She opposes elopement and says they must part forever.
(d) She runs away with Cavigni.

4. What shocking thing does Montoni do when he and his wife and niece and friends take a gondola ride?
(a) He pushes his wife into the canal water.
(b) He gets drunk and gets into a fight with Cavigni.
(c) He tells his wife he has a mistress.
(d) He boards another gondola and leaves his party.

5. Why does Montoni feel defrauded by his wife in Chapter Three of Volume II?
(a) She is much older than she told him.
(b) She is not as rich as he believed before their marriage.
(c) She is in love with another man.
(d) She cannot bear children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Valancourt walk with Emily and declare his love for her?

2. What does Emily St. Albert find written on a wainscot in Chapter One?

3. Which of the following statements does NOT describe what Emily experiences at La Vallee, the St. Albert family home, after her father's death?

4. At the fishing-house, what does Madame St. Albert notice is missing?

5. When Monsieur St. Albert, Valencourt and Emily find a shepherd's cabin at which a young woman laments that gypsies have stolen several sheep, what does Valancourt do to help the woman replace her missing sheep?

(see the answer key)

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