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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 does Kay do for Philip?
(a) Nurses him through an alcoholic binge.
(b) Finds him another job.
(c) Gives him enough money to pay his utilities.
(d) Helps him check into rehab.

2. About what does Carriscant not seem surprised?
(a) Kay's mother saying Hugh is Kay's father.
(b) Kay not wanting to have any contact with him.
(c) Kay's mother is remarried.
(d) Kay joining him for lunch.

3. For what does Kay use a scalpel?
(a) To carve a model of a building she is designing.
(b) To carve her initials in a tree.
(c) To open a package that arrives for her.
(d) To make an incision in Carriscant's arm.

4. What does Carriscant have when he returns to Manila?
(a) A wife and a child.
(b) A degree in philosophy from Oxford.
(c) A then-modern understanding of surgery.
(d) A degree in law from Harvard.

5. What does Kay think started Philip on the road to his alcoholism?
(a) The death of his son.
(b) Losing his fortune in the stock market crash of 1929.
(c) Flunking out of MIT.
(d) Losing his father and older brother in a mining accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality is Carriscant's mother?

2. Where does Kay have lunch with her mother?

3. Who is Isidro Cruz?

4. What does Pantaleon lack?

5. During what time does the United States colonize the Philippine Islands?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Carriscant say about his parentage?

2. What do Quiroga and Carriscant do for a Chinese boy?

3. What does Carriscant notice while at Cruz's home?

4. What does Carriscant show Kay after visiting Paton Bobby and what does he ask of her?

5. What do Kay and Philip think about the other one?

6. Why does Kay take her mother to an out-of-the-way restaurant?

7. Who is Pantaleon Quiroga?

8. What is the impact of Coleman's death on Kay and Philip?

9. Why do Bobby and Carriscant visit Isidro Cruz and what happens?

10. What does Salvador Carriscant say about his return to Manila in 1897?

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