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

2. What room in the house where Charles lives contains windows in its walls?
(a) Mailroom
(b) Inner room
(c) Bathroom
(d) Patio

3. How does Charles alert Hartley that it is him at the front door with the letter after Fitch leaves?
(a) He calls ahead of time.
(b) Doorbell.
(c) A birdcall.
(d) Special knock.

4. Who does Charles encounter when he is wandering around the town, nursing his hangover?
(a) Peregrine
(b) Rosina
(c) James
(d) Hartley

5. Charles insists that there is no ______________ with Lizzie when he is talking to Rosina.
(a) Love
(b) Conflict
(c) Arrangement
(d) Argument

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________ was the foolish, yet gentle woman from Charles's past love affairs.

2. _____________ was the passionate and the very talented former over from Charles's past.

3. What was Peregrine's birth name, though he changed it in order to reflect his love of an uncle?

4. What does James reveal he has left, though he does not reveal the reason behind it?

5. Who is the old women that Charles eventually recognizes to be a long lost lover?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hartley tearfully admit to Charles when he finds her the next day in the market?

2. What did Charles intend for the first paragraph of his writing in the book?

3. What does Charles interrupt when he arrives at Nibletts that same evening after seeing Hartley?

4. What does Charles do for the first time since he was a child when he is out looking for Hartley?

5. What is the prediction that Charles makes for the decision Lizzie will make about being with Gilbert?

6. What are some of the things that Peregrine confesses to hating in his life?

7. What are the three passions which Charles describes in his writing at the start of this book?

8. What is Charles afraid of as he writes the letter to Hartley offering to take her away and to take care of her forever?

9. What does Rosina confess to doing in order to haunt Charles in his house at Shruff End?

10. How does Charles finally deliver the letter to Hartley when he is done writing it?

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