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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. What is the last name of Tom, who works at a powerful newspaper?
(a) Parker.
(b) Timbers.
(c) Powers.
(d) Towers.

2. What does Harding plan to sell to pay his consultation fees?
(a) Jewelry.
(b) Furniture.
(c) His books.
(d) His horses.

3. What goddess has her seat on Mount Olympus, according to the narrator?
(a) Hera.
(b) Pica.
(c) Athena.
(d) Rhea.

4. The narrator says Sir Abraham has a stoop where?
(a) In his neck.
(b) In his hips.
(c) In his back.
(d) In his legs.

5. Where does Harding spend of his second day in London?
(a) Waterloo.
(b) Downing Street.
(c) Buckingham Palace.
(d) Westminster Abbey.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Sir Abraham described?

2. Who says, "Don't you know that their attorneys have noticed us that they have withdrawn the suit"?

3. Where has Bold just returned from when Eleanor goes to see him?

4. The same person who owns Crabtree Canonicorum also owns a hospitable villa on what lake?

5. Who says, "That's philosophical; it's quite refreshing to hear a man talking of his hundreds in so purely indifferent a manner"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the beadsmen when their warden resigns?

2. Why does Eleanor decide to visit Bold at the beginning of Chapter 11 "Iphigenia"?

3. Why does Grantly assume that Bold wants to drop the changes against Harding?

4. How does Tom seem to feel about his position at the newspaper?

5. Why is Susan concerned about her father, Harding, resigning?

6. What happens when Grantly tells Bold he cannot back out of the legal situation?

7. What happens when Eleanor tells Mary that she cannot marry Bold?

8. How does Harding respond when Sir Abraham asks him why is concerned for his reputation?

9. How is Harding's resignation received, over all?

10. Why does Harding plan to sell his furniture when he resigns?

(see the answer keys)

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