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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. How does Lily feel about Gerty's living conditions at the beginning of the story?
(a) She looks down on Gerty's situation.
(b) She envies Gerty's situation.
(c) She feels sympathy toward her.
(d) She is afraid for Gerty.

2. What do Lily and Lawrence Selden discover as they walk together on Sunday afternoon?
(a) They have nothing in common.
(b) Their true feelings for each other.
(c) They are both in love with other people.
(d) They share the same ideas of success in life.

3. What does Lily realize as she chats with Gus Trenor on the way home from the train station?
(a) Gus Trenor can speak to Percy Gryce for her.
(b) She is attracted to Gus Trenor.
(c) Gus Trenor is attracted to her.
(d) He can help her with her money problems.

4. Why does Mrs. Trenor ask Lily, instead of Carry Fischer, to go to the train station to pick up her husband ?
(a) Carry Fischer is too flirtatious.
(b) Gus specifically requests that Lily pick him up at the train station.
(c) Carry Fischer always asks Gus Trenor for money.
(d) Carry Fischer has a questionable reputation.

5. In book 1, chapter 6, what does Lily admit to Lawrence Selden about Percy Gryce as they walk together on Sunday afternoon ?
(a) She admits that she knows Percy feels nothing for her.
(b) She admits that she proposed to Percy.
(c) She admits that Percy told her to stop smoking or he won't marry her.
(d) Their walk was to entice Percy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does The House of Mirth take place?

2. What does Gerty Farish tell Lily about Percy Gryce?

3. In book 1, chapter 10, why does Lily want to avoid seeing Gus Trenor?

4. What disturbs the moment of closeness between Lawrence Selden and Lily on their walk together?

5. How does Lily view the results of her activities the first night of the party?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize Lily's family history.

2. Compare Lawrence Selden's feelings about women with Lily's feelings about women.

3. Explain Lily's reaction to Nettie Struther's living conditions.

4. In book 1, chapter 4, how does the author use the gossip of Judy Trenor?

5. In book 1, chapter 10, why does Lily continue her arrangement with Gus Trenor?

6. In book 1, chapter 1, why is Lawrence Selden surprised that Lily accepts his offer to have tea alone with him in his apartment?

7. What does Lily believe Gerty Farish will provide for her when she goes to Gerty's apartment after she argues with Gus Trenor?

8. How would an objective observer describe Gerty Farish?

9. What are Nettie Struther's feelings toward Lily?

10. In book 2, chapter 9, how does Lawrence Selden react when Lily reprimands him for not visiting her sooner than he did?

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