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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beatrice do when Harry is sent away to school?

2. What causes Beatrice to faint while trying on her bridesmaid dress?

3. What promise does Beatrice elicit from Celia?

4. What is the name of Beatrice's doctor?

5. What happens to Beatrice and Harry on the voyage?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does Beatrice realize Ralph's influence over Harry?

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

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

4. What are the circumstances of Harry and Beatrice's first sexual encounter?

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

6. How does Beatrice have to gain control over Harry's management of the wheat harvest?

7. What lies does Beatrice relay to Harry to avoid everyone finding out that Beatrice, and not Celia, was pregnant?

8. How do Celia's maternal instincts give her a new, forceful personality?

9. How does Beatrice behave after the birth of her child?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Create a brief character study of Celia. What does she look like? What are her positive personality traits? What are some of her negative characteristics? What are her hopes and fears? What motivates her--if anything--at this point in her life?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the role of girls and women in the 18th century in England. What precedents do they feel compelled to follow? What restrictions do they have? What freedoms did they enjoy that 21st-century women do not?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the taboo of incest as portrayed in the story. Why would the author have included such a controversial topic in the novel? Was incest more accepted in the 18th century than it is now? Explain.

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