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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Aunt Tranter affected in all of the problems?
(a) She wants to have the police confront Charles.
(b) She says she never trusted Charles.
(c) She thinks it is all for the best.
(d) She is confused and angry.

2. What does Charles observe about American women?
(a) He sees a shadow of Sarah in each of them.
(b) He sees them as no different from women in England.
(c) He considers them too pristine.
(d) He thinks that they have no sense of style.

3. What does Charles admit to Dr. Grogan about his feelings for Ernestina?
(a) That he was sure it would take years for Ernestina to understand him.
(b) That his only interest in her is her dowry.
(c) That she understands very little of what he is.
(d) That the attraction has worn off and he feels trapped.

4. Where does Charles go after leaving Sarah?
(a) To a church
(b) To find Sam
(c) To the carriage depot
(d) To his hotel room

5. What does Dr. Grogan suggest?
(a) That he will handle the matter with Sarah and Charles must go away.
(b) That Charles see Sarah and make up his mind who he loves.
(c) That Charles insists on eloping with Ernestina at once.
(d) That Dr. Grogan himself goes to find out what Sarah really wants.

6. How does Sam try to start gossip with Mrs. Rogers at the Kensington house?
(a) By leaving letters and telegrams lying around
(b) By hinting there are many other things afoot in Charles' life
(c) By asking questions of Mrs. Rogers
(d) By name dropping

7. What is Dr. Grogan's recommendation for Ernestina's treatment?
(a) Humor her in whatever she wants to do.
(b) Send her to Bedlam.
(c) Send for her father.
(d) Take her on a trip abroad.

8. In the Victorian ending, what becomes of Mrs. Poulteney?
(a) She runs away with the vicar.
(b) She tries to enter heaven and is cast into the realm below.
(c) She becomes blind and her servants steal everything from her.
(d) She has a change of heart and becomes kind to her servants.

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

10. What happens when Sam comes to Charles' hotel room?
(a) He resigns as Charles' servant.
(b) He gives Charles a black eye.
(c) He agrees to go abroad with charles.
(d) He demands money from Charles.

11. 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?
(a) Overdressing
(b) Education
(c) Religion
(d) Nobility

12. After the prostitute gets into bed, Charles stares down at her and asks her name. What is her answer?
(a) Mary
(b) Ernestina
(c) Victoria
(d) Sarah

13. To what animal does Charles compare himself at the time?
(a) A feral cat who must make his way by stealth and cunning.
(b) The hedgehog who curls up in a ball and erects its spines of aristocracy.
(c) A pampered Pekinese dependant on his future father-in-law.
(d) A serpent that devours everyone around him.

14. What has happened at the prostitute's house?
(a) Charles has been drinking heavily and begins throwing up when she said her name was Sarah.
(b) Charles passes out from too much to drink and sleeps in a chair.
(c) Charles has intercourse with the girl before finding out her name was Sarah.
(d) Sarah's little daughter comes in and gets into bed with them.

15. How does Charles explain himself to Sam?
(a) That he has come to tell Sarah never to bother him again.
(b) That he is there on the instruction of Dr. Grogan.
(c) That he has volunteered for the search party.
(d) That he accidentally heard someone in the shed and went in to see who it was.

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor does Charles use to describe his guilt of lying about Sarah?

2. What discovery does Charles make that hits him like a thunderbolt?

3. Who does Charles meet face-to-face as he exits the shed?

4. What does Charles decide to do?

5. What does Freeman recognize about the times?

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