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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Whitechapel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Barnard Gregory born?
(a) 1796.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1826.

2. In Chapter Three: "The Hooded Man," Flush considered his situation and thought, "Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also ______________."
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Love.
(c) Ambition.
(d) Blindness.

3. What figure of speech is represented by "... just as a river, though it reflects still trees and grazing cows and rooks returning to the tree-tops, moves inevitably to a waterfall, so those days, Flush knew, were moving to catastrophe"?
(a) Simile.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Metaphor.

4. It was January in what year that Miss Barrett received a letter unlike others?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1839.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1861.

5. After punishing Flush, what did Miss Barrett do that Fluff considered "of calculated and deliberate malice"?
(a) Put Mr. Browning's flowers in a vase.
(b) Went for a walk.
(c) Sent Flush to Miss Wilson.
(d) Beat Flush.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Elizabeth Barrett forgotten to take with her the day that Flush was stolen?

2. What confused Flush about Miss Barrett's room?

3. Miss Barrett walked on her own feet as far as the gate to _______ with her sister.

4. Some insisted that the breed of dog be called Spaniel because it was ____________.

5. What word, meaning not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect, did Flash consider Mr. Barrett to be in Chapter Three: "The Hooded Man"?

(see the answer key)

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