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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 causes Mrs. Lacy to fall ill and stay in her room for a few days?
(a) A cold.
(b) A cat allergy.
(c) A migraine.
(d) Influenza.

2. What idea of Mrs. Lacy's does Beatrice try to deflect?
(a) That Mrs. Lacy should remarry.
(b) That they should try to find Ralph.
(c) That Beatrice should go to college.
(d) That Beatrice should marry soon.

3. Which of the following does Beatrice NOT consider to be a threat to her security?
(a) Ralph exacting revenge on her.
(b) Celia producing a male heir.
(c) Her mother sending her away to be married.
(d) Harry falling in love with Celia.

4. What does Harry do when Ralph beats him with a riding crop?
(a) Has him arrested.
(b) Runs away.
(c) Shoots him.
(d) Begs to be hit again.

5. What kind of trap does Beatrice find Ralph making one day?
(a) A squirrel trap.
(b) A bear trap.
(c) A man trap.
(d) A rabbit trap.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Beatrice spend time with when Henry is sick?

2. What does Celia name the new baby?

3. Why does Julia cry so much on the return voyage?

4. Whose infatuation with Harry angers Beatrice?

5. What do Beatrice and Dr. McAndrew do when he comes to visit one day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Beatrice and Ralph alike in their views of love and pleasure?

2. How does Dr. McAndrews help Beatrice manage through the period when she is having nightmares about Ralph?

3. What two things does Beatrice see as hurdles to her future and how does she plan to manage them?

4. How does Beatrice react when she hears of how near Ralph is getting to Wideacre?

5. What impediment stands in the way of Beatrice and Ralph's taking over Wideacre and what is the plan to remove it?

6. Explain Beatrice's concept of the importance of her home, Wideacre, in the universe.

7. How does the spark of attraction begin with Harry and Beatrice?

8. How does Beatrice come to realize that she is not her father's favored child after all?

9. When does Beatrice realize the gap that exists between her world and Ralph's world?

10. What does Beatrice think is the real reason her mother wants Harry to come home from school?

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