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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Charles and Hartley are speaking to each other, who is speaking in half-answers in a fearful tone?
(a) Hartley
(b) Neither. They don't talk.
(c) Both
(d) Charles

2. ____________ was the foolish, yet gentle woman from Charles's past love affairs.
(a) Lizzie
(b) Clement
(c) Rosina
(d) Hartley

3. Charles comments that always in their conversations, James makes him feel defensive and __________.
(a) Small
(b) Worldly
(c) Intelligent
(d) Mismatched

4. Rosina tells Charles that he knows of his desire to be with ____________.
(a) Lizzie
(b) Her
(c) Clement
(d) Hartley

5. Hartley reveals to Charles that Fitch is insanely __________, even going so far as to thinking Titus is Charles's son.
(a) Paranoid
(b) Jealous
(c) Dramatic
(d) Stupid

6. What is the look in Hartley's eyes when she recognizes Charles in the crowd?
(a) Fear
(b) Happiness
(c) Anger
(d) Pain

7. What does Hartley tearfully admit to Charles when he goes out to look for her the next day?
(a) Fitch has left her.
(b) Fitch has died.
(c) They are moving to Australia.
(d) Titus has run away.

8. Where does Charles go the next day as he is nursing a hangover from his night with Peregrine?
(a) A library
(b) Sea
(c) Art gallery
(d) The train station

9. Who was Pergrine's ex-wife, according to his dialog with Charles during this chapter?
(a) Clement
(b) Hartley
(c) Rosina
(d) Lizzie

10. James's apartment is cluttered with _______________ memorabilia which is part junk and part treasure.
(a) Far Eastern
(b) Modern
(c) Italian
(d) Ancient

11. What does Charles create that will express his love for Hartley, hopefully persuading her to leave?
(a) A play.
(b) A long letter.
(c) A song.
(d) A sculpture.

12. Charles does find photographs of his Uncle ___________ and Aunt Estelle.
(a) John
(b) Abel
(c) Peregrine
(d) James

13. Why does Hartley's husband have a limp, according to the writing of Charles in this story?
(a) Defect
(b) Sports injury
(c) War injury
(d) He doesn't

14. What does Hartley mention that Fitch still has from his army days, though she mentions this in passing?
(a) A bomb
(b) His uniform
(c) His revolver
(d) A knife

15. Charles prays that he be allowed to find Hartley and to make her _____________.
(a) His cooking partner
(b) His wife
(c) Sexually satisfied
(d) Happy

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the seaside community in which Charles lives within this story?

2. What does Charles go into Narrowdean to buy as he is confident Lizzie will come to be with him?

3. Hartley suddenly realizes that Charles has been lying to her about how ___________ it really was.

4. Who appears in the middle of the argument between Charles and Gilbert at Charles's home?

5. Who surprises Charles at his seaside home the next day?

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