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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ____________ also told Charles to leave Hartley alone and Charles finally realizes this was good advice.
(a) Clement
(b) His mother
(c) A dream
(d) Aunt Estelle

2. Hartley becomes horrified when she finds out that Charles _________________.
(a) Watched her as she slept.
(b) Listened in on her and Fitch.
(c) Has been lying to Titus.
(d) Tried to kill Fitch.

3. Charles has come to believe that _________________ is entirely impossible
(a) Changing oneself
(b) Committment
(c) Falling in love
(d) Being happy

4. Charles becomes angry with Harley as he feels he is offering her _____________.
(a) Riches
(b) Love
(c) Honesty
(d) Freedom

5. Charles convinces himself that the change in Hartley's behavior is the result of her realizing the ____________ of his love.
(a) Committment
(b) Inevitability
(c) Strength
(d) Truth

6. Charles tells Hartley he has every intention of _______________ at Shruff End.
(a) Making love to her
(b) Keeping her
(c) Marrying her
(d) Killing Fitch

7. Charles begins to reflect upon _______________ and the misery of her death.
(a) Lizzie
(b) Clement
(c) Hartley
(d) Rosina

8. Rosina reveals that when she and Charles were together, he made her _____________.
(a) Miserable
(b) Sick
(c) Pregnant
(d) Happy

9. What does Charles thrust into Hartley's hand when he finally leaves the home she and Fitch share?
(a) A bottle of wine
(b) A ring
(c) A letter
(d) A book

10. Where does Hartley lock herself when she enters the house after Charles walks up to the door with her?
(a) Bedroom
(b) Inner tower
(c) Kitchen
(d) Bathroom

11. Who does Charles imagine throwing off the rocks in order to kill him?
(a) Fitch
(b) Gilbert
(c) James
(d) Titus

12. ____________ tries to convince Charles that he attempts to rescue Hartley were delusions from an old dream.
(a) James
(b) Titus
(c) Fitch
(d) Peregrine

13. Charles insists that James and ____________ leave immediately, even opening the car doors for them.
(a) Titus
(b) Lizzie
(c) Gilbert
(d) Peregrine

14. Peregrine refers to Charles as a withered __________________, and that he would not be anything without the help of Clement.
(a) Richard III
(b) Hamlet
(c) Othello
(d) Prospero

15. Whose death has left everyone in the house in a daze at the start of this chapter?
(a) James
(b) Titus
(c) Charles
(d) Peregrine

Short Answer Questions

1. Who begins to hurl rocks at the car as they are driving to Nibletts?

2. Charles says that the ____________ is the only part of his life with any meaning and that he wants to wait for Hartley.

3. With whom does Charles argue gently about how love should be expressed?

4. ___________ has left university in search of Charles as he wants to ask where Charles is actually his father.

5. At this point of the book, Charles decides he is no longer writing a ____________, but rather a memoir.

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