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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 32, 33, 34, and 35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon whose word does Mr. Forsythe, vicar of Lyme, rely to recommend Sarah?
(a) Mr. Fursey-Harris, vicar of Chramouth.
(b) Sarah herself.
(c) His maid who knows Sarah personally.
(d) Mrs. Talbot.

2. What does Charles attempt to do with Sarah?
(a) Get her to pretend suicide.
(b) Get her to go to Paris with him.
(c) Give her money to go to Exeter and find a job.
(d) Help him make up a story about how he found her there.

3. What does Knowles say readers should now see as obvious?
(a) That Sam had proposed marriage to Mary.
(b) That Sam is planning to abandon Mary.
(c) That Mary is pregnant with Sam's baby.
(d) That Sam and Mary had been to that barn many times before.

4. What does Sarah give Charles?
(a) An invitation to meet her at night.
(b) Two perfect fossils she found.
(c) A lock of her hair.
(d) A handkerchief.

5. What characteristics make Aunt Tranter very special?
(a) Wealth and generosity.
(b) Optimism and making the best of everything for all.
(c) High moral and religious values.
(d) Plumpness and a jocular spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Knowles say modern society has destroyed by throwing over the aura of mystery about sex?

2. What does Knowles say the novelist is?

3. After Ernestina goes back to sleep, what happens in the kitchen downstairs?

4. What does Knowles say that the Victorians had thrown at them night and day in the same way we have sex thrown at us today?

5. How does the butler sum up the feelings of Mrs. Poulteney's staff?

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