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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Major Brutt accept from Thomas?
(a) A drink.
(b) A loan.
(c) A job offer.
(d) A cigarette.

2. What does Eddie expect of Portia while he visits her at Waikiki?
(a) That she will not speak to Dickie, or any other man.
(b) That she will pretend that she doesn't know him very well.
(c) That if anyone gives him trouble she will defend him.
(d) That she will devote all of her time to entertaining him.

3. Why is Portia nervous in chapter 8?
(a) She is worried that she and Eddie will be discovered together.
(b) She is insecure about her appearance.
(c) She has never been to tea before.
(d) Being around Eddie makes her nervous.

4. Who asks Major Brutt if he knows Robert Pidgeon?
(a) Anna.
(b) No one, Major Brutt brought it up.
(c) Portia.
(d) Thomas.

5. What was the agreement that Anna and Eddie reached after Eddie got his job?
(a) They agreed to pretend that nothing had happened between them.
(b) They agreed to continue seeing each other, but only in secret.
(c) They agreed to get along for Thomas's sake.
(d) They agreed to close the door on their former relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mr. Bursely call Portia?

2. What advice does Daphne give Portia regarding Eddie?

3. Who are the first characters introduced in the novel?

4. What did Mrs. Quayne do when she received the news that Portia had been born?

5. What does Anna suggest that she, Thomas, and Portia should do together?

(see the answer key)

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