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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 is the name of the Dashwood's new cottage?
(a) Middleton Cottage
(b) Norland Cottage
(c) Barton Cottage
(d) Brittle Cottage

2. Where do the Palmers live?
(a) The Lake District
(b) Newcastle
(c) Liverpool
(d) Cleveland

3. What does Marianne want to do?
(a) FInd another man
(b) Stay and fight for Willoughby
(c) Die
(d) Go home to Barton Cottage

4. Which of the daughters is described as having "strength and understanding"?
(a) Margeret
(b) Elinor
(c) Lucy
(d) Marianne

5. Who saves Marianne from her twisted ankle?
(a) Mrs. Dashwood
(b) Willoughby
(c) Edward
(d) John Dashwood

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs Jennings think the Colonel is left town for?

2. What does Marianne plan to do while in London?

3. How many marriages has Henry Dashwood had?

4. Why does Mrs. Jennings worry about the Colonel?

5. What topic of conversation do the Dashwoods draw Edward into?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Mrs. Dashwood so taken with Willoughby?

2. Does Elinor strike up a friendship with Lucy because she likes her?

3. Why do you think Edward never approaches the subject of why he is so upset?

4. How do the group's discussion of what they will do with a fortune express their individual characters?

5. What comparisons does Austen draw from the Dashwood's situation at Norland with John and their new situation in Barton with Sir John?

6. How is Willoughby's letter symbolize his manipulative nature?

7. Is Brandon a good match for Elinor?

8. In what way does Austen use Colonel Brandon to highlight the sister's differences in character?

9. Why, if Elinor is so independent thinking and the one person in the family with sense, does she write to her mother for advice?

10. Is Mrs. Jennings merely a gossip, or does she genuinely care about people?

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