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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Charles' mother?
(a) She fell into the sea on a boat outing.
(b) She died of tuberculosis.
(c) She ran off with an Italian.
(d) She died in childbirth to a stillborn girl.

2. What gives Charles a free day to go do some digging?
(a) Ernestina falls on Aunt Tranter's stairs.
(b) Ernestina returns to London.
(c) Ernestina is upset and will not see him.
(d) Ernestina has a migraine.

3. 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.

4. Why does Sarah take the risk of not going by the back way around the dairy the morning she is seen by two walkers?
(a) She is late for Mrs. Poulteney's reading.
(b) She thinks it is too early for anyone else to be about.
(c) She decides to be brazen and go where she pleases.
(d) She is thinking too hard and does not notice which way she went.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ernestina react to Charles' suggestion that they elope and go to Paris?

2. How does the bright day affect Charles?

3. When Charles and Sarah leave the secluded place, who do they meet coming up toward them?

4. What does Sarah give Charles?

5. What is Knowles' description of Mrs. Poulteney's unsuccessful appeal to knowledge?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ernestina miffed at the flowers Charles sends her on the morning he goes to the Ware Commons?

2. In Lyme, by some strata of society, Sarah Woodruff is known as the French lieutenant's whore. Ernestina has another name for her. Why and what is it?

3. What is the explanation for Mrs. Poulteney's idea that the Ware Commons evokes Sodom and Gomorrah in her mind?

4. What makes Ernestina angry after Charles returns from London?

5. Describe Charles' reaction to the expected visits with the prim Victorian ladies of Ernestina's acquaintance.

6. How does Sarah insist that the county is filled with women who are outcasts?

7. Why does Sarah suggest that she will not leave Lyme Regis?

8. What are the indications of Charles as an eligible bachelor before his engagement to Ernestina?

9. What makes Ernestina laugh uncontrollably and Aunt Tranter fear she and Charles might be having a quarrel?

10. The morning Ernestina has a migraine, describe Charles' acting as a moth being drawn to a flame.

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