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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 is Ralph doing when Beatrice walks out of the house?

2. What causes Mama to pass out in the library?

3. Who tells Beatrice that Mama has died?

4. What makes it easy for Beatrice and Harry to continue their midnight trysts?

5. Which of the following does NOT happen when the physicians come to take John away for treatment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Beatrice alter events so that John is blamed for Mama's death?

2. How does Beatrice reinforce her ploy to have John sent away by planting a bottle of liquor in his room?

3. How does Beatrice know that Ralph is getting closer to returning to Wideacre?

4. What inadvertently happens to restore John's reputation as a doctor?

5. What does Beatrice tell Celia to coerce her to support John's being sent away for alcohol abuse treatment?

6. How does Beatrice manage to keep John away from home until she completes the purchase of the entail?

7. How does Beatrice react when she learns that John has asked Harry's permission to marry her?

8. Describe the scene in which John is taken away by the doctors to begin his alcohol addiction treatment.

9. What is revealed about the characters in the Epilogue?

10. How does John respond when he sees the newborn child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Create a brief character study of Beatrice. 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

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

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