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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Clarissa especially want to prevent from viewing her body?
(a) Miss Howe.
(b) Lovelace.
(c) Widow Sinclair.
(d) The varlets.

2. What reason does Clarissa's doctor give for saying she does not have to pay him?
(a) The doctor says Lovelace should pay him, since he ravished Clarissa.
(b) The doctor wants to marry Clarissa.
(c) Some of his visits are social.
(d) The doctor says the government should pay him, since Clarissa is so wonderful.

3. Who does Clarissa ask to be the executor of her will?
(a) Uncle Antony.
(b) Miss Howe.
(c) Belford.
(d) Mr. Hickman.

4. Why does Belford beg Lovelace not to visit Clarissa?
(a) Because Belford has decided to marry Clarissa himself.
(b) Because the police are planning to arrest Lovelace if he shows up at Clarissa's lodgings.
(c) Because a visit from Lovelace will make Clarissa die sooner.
(d) Because Belford is afraid Lovelace will commit suicide if he sees Clarissa.

5. How does M'Donald feel while dying?
(a) Happy to be getting out of jail.
(b) Penitent.
(c) Calm and rational.
(d) Sure of going to heaven.

6. When Belford criticizes Clarissa's family for its stubbornness, how does Clarissa respond?
(a) Clarissa says Belford is right, and her family will suffer in the afterlife for the way they have treated her.
(b) Clarissa asks Belford if he will write to her family and tell them what he said about them.
(c) Clarissa says Belford is not being severe enough.
(d) Clarissa tells Belford he doesn't have the right to criticize her family.

7. After reading the letter in which Clarissa mentions going to her "father's house," what does Lovelace guess might have changed Clarissa's thinking?
(a) He thinks Belford has persuaded her.
(b) He thinks she is pregnant.
(c) He thinks she always intended to marry him, but didn't want him to know it.
(d) He thinks Colonel Morden persuaded her.

8. What weapons do Lovelace and Morden use to fight?
(a) Pistols.
(b) Knives.
(c) Swords.
(d) Bare hands.

9. When Belton knows he is dying, how does he feel?
(a) Happy, because he knows he is going to heaven.
(b) He does not believe the doctor and insists on acting like he's fine.
(c) Remorseful for his immoral life.
(d) Angry with Belford, because he blames the problems in his life on Belford.

10. What is Colonel Morden's plan for what Clarissa should do if she doesn't die?
(a) Marry Mr. Wyerley, if he will still have her.
(b) Travel with Colonel Morden for several years.
(c) Live with Miss Howe.
(d) Go hide in Pennsylvania.

11. Who stops Lovelace and Morden from fighting?
(a) Uncle Antony.
(b) Mr. Hickman.
(c) Clarissa.
(d) Lord M.

12. Which member of Lovelace's family agrees that Clarissa ought to let Lovelace visit her one last time?
(a) Lord D.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Lord M.
(d) Lovelace's younger brother Robert.

13. What do Lovelace's relatives want to give Clarissa to show their regard for her?
(a) All their property.
(b) A quarterly allowance.
(c) All the money Lovelace expects to inherit from Lord M.
(d) A lot of jewelry and clothes.

14. Why does learning what Mr. Brand said in his letter to her family change the way Clarissa thinks about her family's treatment of her?
(a) Because Brand was watching the wrong woman, so everything he told them was about someone else.
(b) Because the information that Brand provided made Clarissa look very bad.
(c) Because Brand had been paid off by Mr. Solmes to lie about Clarissa.
(d) Because Brand told them that they should reconcile with her, but they ignored him.

15. What does Brand say about Belford's relationship with Clarissa?
(a) That he thinks Belford is trying to convince Clarissa to leave her money to Belford.
(b) That he thinks Belford is Lovelace in disguise.
(c) That he thinks Belford gives Clarissa money.
(d) That he thinks Belford is a drug dealer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Widow Sinclair act when Belford tells her she's dying?

2. To whom does Clarissa send the mean letters she received from her family?

3. In Clarissa's posthumous letter to Lovelace, what does she say about her feelings for him?

4. When Lovelace goes to Clarissa's lodgings and she is not there, who does Lovelace leave to spy on her?

5. What damaging fact does Mr. Brand report to Clarissa's family?

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