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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sarah ask of Charles?
(a) That he teach her paleontology.
(b) One hour of his time.
(c) That he take her away.
(d) That he loan her money.

2. Why did Charles urge Ernestina to disagree with him about something?
(a) He is feeling like a Turkish pasha because of her deferring to him.
(b) He does not want people to think theirs iss a Christian marriage.
(c) He is sure that he is not always right and wants her opinion.
(d) It is just another of his silly jokes that Ernestina seldom understands.

3. What is obvious about the size of the dowry Ernestina will bring to a marriage?
(a) The absence of brothers and sisters.
(b) The expensive clothes and jewels she always wears.
(c) The Smithson name.
(d) The size of the Smithson house.

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

5. What title did Charles' grandfather hold?
(a) Earl.
(b) Baronet.
(c) Laird.
(d) Duke.

6. What is Ernestina's reaction to the flowers Sam delivers from Charles?
(a) She wants to know if a shop keeper delivered the flowers.
(b) She frowns because she is ashamed of herself.
(c) She jumps from bed and dances around the room.
(d) She frowns because she has been imagining unfaithfulness of Charles' part.

7. What does Knowles say is the most common symptom of wealth in 1867?
(a) Neurosis.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Indulgence.
(d) Responsibility.

8. What terrible image does Mrs. Talbot have from the literature she reads?
(a) A picture of Sarah after jumping from a cliff.
(b) A picture of Sarah reduced to working in a house of ill repute.
(c) A picture of Sarah begging on the streets.
(d) A picture of Sarah dying of starvation.

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

10. Where are Charles' grandfather's archeological finds housed?
(a) Westminster Abby.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) Windsor Castle.
(d) The British Museum.

11. Dr. Grogan says he knows more about ________ than what goes on in Sarah's mind.
(a) The number of stars in the sky.
(b) The fossils on the beach.
(c) The times of the tides.
(d) What goes on in Windsor Castle.

12. What is Sarah's position in Charmouth?
(a) Housekeeper.
(b) Librarian.
(c) Milk maid.
(d) Governess.

13. How does Knowles picture Sam?
(a) He is young, fond of idling, and always has a straw or sprig of parsley in his mouth.
(b) He is humbly devoted to Charles and not into self aggrandizement.
(c) He is a man who cannot understand Charles' jokes.
(d) He is an older man with a great deal of polish.

14. What is Charles' thinking as he passes through the vast estate?
(a) That his uncle has let the place go.
(b) That he does not want to live there.
(c) That Ernestina will not be up to running the great house.
(d) That is it soon to be his.

15. When Sarah turns to look at Charles, how does he describe the look?
(a) Dark and mystifying.
(b) Mysterious and inviting.
(c) As though she looked right through him.
(d) Sensuous and compelling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shop in Lyme is somewhat famous?

2. What begins to trouble Charles about his engagement to Ernestina?

3. On the bright, sunny morning in Lyme, how does Ernestina awaken?

4. What rests on a table at the bay window of Dr. Grogan's house?

5. At that time in London, what is socially becoming as important as good blood?

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