The House of Mirth: Study Help: Quiz

1: With whom is Lily living at the beginning of the novel?

a. Getty Farish

b. Her aunt Mrs. Peniston

c. Her mother

d. Her friends the Trenors

2: Why does Lily stop working for the Gormers?

a. They discover she is romantically linked with Simon Rosedale.

b. Bertha Dorset poisons Mattie Gormer against Lily.

c. Lily is compromised by Gormer.

d. Ned Silverton advises her to do so.

3: Why does Bertha Dorset malign Lily’s character?

a. To mask Bertha’s affair with Lawrence Selden

b. To get revenge on behalf of Judy Trenor

c. To prevent Lily from marrying her son

d. To mask Bertha’s affair with Ned Silverton

4: Gerty Farish is whose cousin?

a. Lawrence Selden’s

b. Carry Fisher’s

c. Lily Bart’s

d. Judy Trenor’s

5: Why does Lily accept the Dorset’s invitation to travel to Europe?

a. In order to court Ned Silverton

b. To help her forget her debts to Gus Trenor

c. To find Lawerence Selden and accept his proposal

d. To convince George Dorset to loan her money

6: Why does Gerty wish to keep Lily’s chloral overdose a secret?

a. Suicide was socially unacceptable.

b. She suspects Lily was killed.

c. She is using Lily’s death to further her own romance with Selden.

d. She is afraid she’ll be blamed for the death.

7: Why does Lily refuse to use Bertha’s letters to Selden to her own cause?

a. She believes blackmail is wrong.

b. She would then have no choice but to marry Simon Rosedale.

c. She feels too indebted to Bertha.

d. She secretly loves George Dorset.

8: What is Lawrence Selden’s profession?

a. Student

b. Businessman

c. Real estate tycoon

d. Attorney

9: Who says the following: “Isn’t marriage your vocation? Isn’t it what you’re all brought up for?”

a. Simon Rosedale

b. Lawrence Selden

c. Bertha Dorset

d. Gus Trenor

10: Who says the following: “Gad, you go to men’s houses fast enough in broad daylight—strikes me you’re not always so deuced careful of appearances.”

a. Carry Fisher

b. Simon Rosedale

c. Gus Trenor

d. Gerty Farish

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