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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. How much is Harding's little cottage worth a year?
(a) 80 pounds.
(b) 120 pounds.
(c) 60 pounds.
(d) 100 pounds.

2. A second newspaper article that speaks badly of Harding asks why an old men's home needs what?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A manager.
(c) A warden.
(d) A preacher.

3. How is Sir Abraham described?
(a) Short and skinny.
(b) Big and tall.
(c) Tall and thin.
(d) Short and fat.

4. What Greek mythological character does Eleanor want to be like?
(a) Hara.
(b) Athena.
(c) Iphigenia.
(d) Clytemnestra.

5. What is Sentiment's first name?
(a) Trendy.
(b) Faddish.
(c) Vogue.
(d) Popular.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who meets Harding at the train station when he goes home?

2. How does the narrator describe Harding's usual mood?

3. Who says, "Mr. Bold can act as he thinks proper, my love"?

4. Who is Bold out with when Eleanor goes to see him?

5. Who does Grantly throw out of his home at the end of "Mr. Bold's Visit to Plumstead"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Bold leave angrily from his meeting with Tom?

3. How does a magazine called "The Almshouse" portray Harding?

4. What is Grantly's idea for how Harding can remain employed?

5. How does Bold respond when Eleanor begs him to promise that he will stop the legal proceedings against her father?

6. Why does Bold suspect that he is to blame for the article in the newspaper that slanders Harding?

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

8. How does Bold feel when he reads about Harding in a magazine called "The Almshouse"?

9. Why does Sir Abraham think Harding has come to see him?

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

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