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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 and 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Knowles say has served as a substitute for experience in Sarah Woodruff?
(a) Lectures from her father.
(b) The advice of older women.
(c) Fiction and poetry.
(d) Her first class education.

2. What annoying habit did Aunt Tranter have which causes Ernestina consternation?
(a) She insists on being a chaperone for Ernestina and Charles.
(b) She sits at her window with a telescope.
(c) She dips snuff in the parlor.
(d) She is an inveterate gossip.

3. What does Charles intend to do on his outing?
(a) Avoid going anywhere he might run into Sarah.
(b) Stay away from the Cobb.
(c) Walk to the next county to hunt for fossils.
(d) Look for Sarah to talk to her.

4. How are Charles and Ernestina dressed on their walk down the Cobb?
(a) In raincoats and boots.
(b) In riding habits.
(c) Very stylishly for the day.
(d) In clothes suited to the taste of Lyme Regis.

5. Why does Mrs. Talbot decide not to rehire Sarah Woodruff?
(a) She thinks Sarah's experience with the lieutenant would impair her concentration on the children.
(b) She is afraid of her neighbors' gossip.
(c) She is aghast at the brazenness of Sarah for even coming to see her.
(d) Her husband flatly refuses to have Sarah back.

Short Answer Questions

1. In trying to be Victorian polite, what does Ernestina call the woman they see on the Cobb?

2. What characteristics make Aunt Tranter very special?

3. What does Charles notice that shocks Ernestina?

4. What gives Charles a free day to go do some digging?

5. Why is Mrs. Poulteney shocked to hear that Sarah is walking on Ware Commons?

(see the answer key)

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