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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what time did Mr. Browning always arrive to visit with Miss Barrett?
(a) 4:00.
(b) 5:00.
(c) 3:40.
(d) 2:30.

2. What was the name of Elizabeth Barrett's aunt who helped to care for the children after Elizabeth's mother died?
(a) Mrs. Jameson.
(b) Mary Graham Clarke.
(c) Sarah Graham Clarke.
(d) Miss Isa Blagden.

3. Desirable features that Spaniels were expected to have included which of the following?
(a) A top-knot.
(b) Pale eyes.
(c) Curled ears.
(d) Smooth head.

4. When was Elizabeth Barrett born?
(a) 1806.
(b) 1787.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1834.

5. As time went by, Flush was said to have come to prefer the silence of _________to the robustness of a dog.
(a) Rabbits.
(b) Snakes.
(c) The horse.
(d) The cat.

6. 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) Metaphor.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Simile.

7. What color gloves did Mr. Browning always wear?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

8. What year was it when Flush was taken to live with Elizabeth Barrett?
(a) 1842.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1869.

9. What was the date when Mr. Browning first visited Miss Barrett?
(a) July 18.
(b) September 24.
(c) May 21.
(d) December 5.

10. In what century was the Spaniel exported from Spain to Wales?
(a) 7th.
(b) 10th.
(c) 13th.
(d) 16th.

11. The date of Flush's birth was estimated to be early in what year?
(a) 1842.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1867.

12. Who is described as a lady with "a very light complexion -- pale, lucid, eyes; thin colorless lips . . . a nose and chin projective without breadth"?
(a) Mary Graham Clarke.
(b) Mrs. Jameson.
(c) Henrietta.
(d) Miss Wilson.

13. Of what did Flush ask, "Were these not the signals of freedom?"
(a) Birds and frogs.
(b) Rainbows and sunsets.
(c) Air and water.
(d) Trees and grass.

14. Where did Miss Barrett take Flush for a walk in Chapter 2?
(a) Marylebone Church.
(b) Petrarch's fountain.
(c) Oxford Street.
(d) Regent's Park.

15. The carriage that took Miss Barrett and Flush into town drove along what street in Chapter 2: "The Back Bedroom"?
(a) Wimpole Street.
(b) Tottenham Court Road.
(c) Manning Street.
(d) Oxford Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the features considered undesirable in Spaniels, according to the author?

2. At what age did Elizabeth Barrett begin to battle a lifelong illness?

3. It was January in what year that Miss Barrett received a letter unlike others?

4. Who was lying on the sofa by Elizabeth Barrett when Flush was finally summoned from the kitchen after biting Mr. Browning?

5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the foremost poets of what era?

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