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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 does Catherine refuse to do in Chapter 30?
(a) Share her misery with her best friend.
(b) Share her misery with Mrs. Penniman.
(c) Share her misery with her cousin.
(d) Share her misery with her father.

2. What does Mrs. Penniman say she might have been in haste to do?
(a) Proposing to marry before the trip.
(b) Proposing that Mr. Townsend follow Catherine.
(c) Proposing to elope.
(d) Proposing a secret meeting.

3. What does Mrs. Penniman feel some regret about?
(a) Breaking the news unceremoniously.
(b) Letting Catherine end the engagement.
(c) Let Dr. Sloper ruin the engagement.
(d) Letting Mr. Townsend end the engagement.

4. What does Catherine dedicate herself to doing for the next 17 years?
(a) Charities and painting.
(b) Charities and horsebackriding.
(c) Charities and embroidery.
(d) Charities and caring for orphans.

5. What does Mr. Townsend suggest Catherine and him do?
(a) Get married with Mrs. Penniman as a witness.
(b) Get married in secret, but live separately.
(c) Wait for her father.
(d) Elope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person with whom Mrs Penniman is talking continually argue in Chapter 27?

2. From whom does Catherine accept a proposal?

3. How does Catherine react to seeing Mr. Townsend?

4. What does Mr. Townsend ask Mr Penniman to do for him?

5. What does Catherine learn from Mrs Penniman upon her return in Chapter 24?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Catherine tell her father in Chapter 18?

2. What does Mrs. Penniman feel about Catherine?

3. What is Mrs. Penniman told by Dr. Sloper in Chapter 19?

4. Why is Townsend angry?

5. What does Dr. Sloper announce after six months abroad according to Chapter 24?

6. What does Dr. Sloper say to offend Catherine?

7. What does Dr. Sloper ask of Catherine?

8. What does Catherine receive in Chapter 31?

9. What does Mrs. Penniman tell Dr. Sloper in Chapter 30?

10. Why is Mr. Townsend reluctant to elope in Chapter 26?

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