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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Amina doing for the golf club dance?

2. What do the club ladies want the theme of the dance to be?

3. Where does Major Pettigrew pick up Mrs. Ali for the dance?

4. What favor does Pettigrew do for Mrs. Ali's nephew?

5. What objections does Amina's love interest have to the relationship?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Pettigrew asked to do about Lord Dagenham's land?

2. Why does Pettigrew take the protestors on Ferguson's land seriously?

3. Why doesn't Abdul marry the woman he loves?

4. What does Mr. Rasool do at the dance?

5. What does the secretary say to offend Amina?

6. What saves Christmas for Major Pettigrew?

7. Why do Roger and Sandy break up?

8. Why does Mrs. Ali tell Major Pettigrew to stay at the dance when she leaves?

9. How does Pettigrew feel when he picks Mrs. Ali up for the dance?

10. Why has Mrs. Ali allowed her nephew to help in his store?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the ways the Major and Nancy showed their love to each other, and how did these displays alter the course of their lives?

Essay Topic 2

Which person did you relate with the most in this book? Why is this? How did this person change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 3

Anger was a vice that reared its ugly head a number of times in this book. What are some examples of this, and how was Pettigrew's life altered because of these incidents?

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