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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 48, 49, 50, and 51.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charles observe inside the house?
(a) That some things have changed.
(b) That there does not seem to be anyone at home.
(c) That the carpets need to be changed.
(d) That there is an air of gloom about the place.

2. What are the two obsessions of Mrs. Poulteney?
(a) Dirt and immorality.
(b) Wine and fine cuisine.
(c) Vulgarity and rudeness.
(d) Lawlessness and cursing.

3. Where does the cab deliver Charles and the prostitute?
(a) At a bordello
(b) At her flat
(c) At a cheap hotel
(d) At Chrale's Kensington home

4. What gimmick does Knowles use as an ending of the story in Chapter 44?
(a) The breakup of Charles' engagement to Ernestine.
(b) A story within a story that has no ending.
(c) The story as it would have been written in Victorian England.
(d) A flashback to the time Ernestine was sixteen.

5. What expression applied to a boy or girl is guaranteed to despoil their reputation for life?
(a) One of the Lyme Green kids.
(b) One of the Ware Commons kids.
(c) One of the Dairy Lane kids.
(d) One of the Cobb walker kids.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Knowles say is the most common symptom of wealth in 1867?

2. What does Knowles say the novelist is?

3. When Sarah and Charles meet again on the path, what does Charles observe about her?

4. Where does Sarah stay in Exeter?

5. Immediately after Charles discovers that Sarah is not dead, what happens in Ernestina's bedroom?

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