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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Knowles say the novelist is?
(a) A god because he or she creates.
(b) A plagerist because he or she copies from real life stories.
(c) A deceiver because he or she seldom tells the truth.
(d) An authoritarian because he or she writes only by the rules laid down by others.

2. What does Mrs. Poulteney insist as requisites for a companion?
(a) She must have impeccable moral character and no relatives.
(b) She must have a higher education and good references.
(c) She must be willing to attend church every Sabbath.
(d) She must be willing to work for a pittance.

3. At that time in London, what is socially becoming as important as good blood?
(a) Good connections and good experience.
(b) Good money and good brains.
(c) Good education and good travel.
(d) Good clothes and good houses.

4. 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 is it soon to be his.
(d) That Ernestina will not be up to running the great house.

5. On the bright, sunny morning in Lyme, how does Ernestina awaken?
(a) Bright and bubbly, anxious to see Charles.
(b) In a mood that the brilliance of the morning only aggravated.
(c) Afraid that exposure to sunlight would darken her skin.
(d) Too late to see Charles who had already left for a walk.

6. What resolution does Charles make on his way back to Lyme?
(a) To go to confession.
(b) To have physical relations with Sarah the next time they meet.
(c) To avoid Sarah of his own free will.
(d) To break off his engagement to Ernestina.

7. What is the objection of Mrs. Poulteney and others like her to the Assembly Rooms?
(a) The rooms are too small and stuffy.
(b) The toilets are in full view of the windows.
(c) They promote whist, cigar smoking, balls, and other pleasures.
(d) The architecture is too plain and stark.

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

9. How did Charles' father rid him of the desire to become a priest?
(a) By sending him to Paris for six months.
(b) By threatening to cut off his inheritance.
(c) By taking Charles to a brothel.
(d) By increasing his allowance.

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

11. In the meeting in the secluded place, what does Sarah talk about?
(a) She talks about wanting to marry and have children.
(b) She talks about her innocence.
(c) She confesses what she did and why she did it.
(d) She talks about the hypocarcy of the people of Ryme.

12. How does the butler sum up the feelings of Mrs. Poulteney's staff?
(a) Meanness and gluttony describe you perfectly, madam.
(b) You, madam, have not devined that slavery is over.
(c) Madam, I shall shake the dust from my shoes as I leave.
(d) Madam, I should rather the poor house than another week under your roof.

13. What does Sarah tell Mrs. Talbot before she leaves?
(a) That her brother is coming to Lyme and she will teach his children.
(b) That Varguennes is returning from France to marry her.
(c) That she needs to go to London for a higher position.
(d) That she is going back to school.

14. What is Knowles' description of Charles as a palaeontologist?
(a) As an ungifted scientist.
(b) As gifted by lazy.
(c) As an authority many scientists deferred to.
(d) As much ahead of his time.

15. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN takes place in what historical era?
(a) Victorian.
(b) Roman.
(c) Elizabethan.
(d) Edwardian.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Sarah goes to work for Mrs. Poulteney, how does she size up her employer?

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

3. Where are Charles' grandfather's archeological finds housed?

4. What is Ernestina's great fear about marriage?

5. What has happened to Sarah while Charles is away from Lyme?

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