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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. Which poet's work has Chatterton seemed to have claimed as his own?
(a) Rimbaud.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) William Wordsworth.

2. What kind of books does the library keep in the basement?
(a) Comic books.
(b) Foreign books.
(c) Antique books.
(d) Old and neglected books.

3. Which poet helped Harriet publish her first two books?
(a) T.S. Elliot.
(b) Erza Pound.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Len Woolf.

4. What does Harriet say she cannot write about?
(a) The past.
(b) Sex.
(c) The future.
(d) Love.

5. What does the old man sell Philip?
(a) A biography of Chatterton.
(b) A photograph of Chatterton.
(c) A book of Chatterton's poetry.
(d) A brochure about Chatterton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following phrases does Harriet use to describe her food?

2. Which of the following words best describes Harriet's novel?

3. What does Flint call his flat?

4. How does Harriet's house make Charles feel?

5. What street was Colston's second school located on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Charles the following morning?

2. How do Philip and Charles show their different temperaments on the train to Bristol?

3. Why does Harriet fear her memories?

4. How does Harriet react when Charles mentions that she copied Harrison Bentley's plots for her novels?

5. Why does Harriet want to go to the art gallery?

6. Describe Chatterton's upbringing.

7. How does Joynson suggest Chatterton can make them rich?

8. What does the elderly man say to Charles on the phone?

9. What does Philip find out about Harriet in this chapter?

10. How does Charles find the original owner of the Chatterton portrait?

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