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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. Why does Joseph become angry with Augusta when she insists that he go to the park and NOT the bank on the holiday?
(a) He hates the park.
(b) He wants Augusta to go to the bank with him.
(c) He does not want to be told what to do.
(d) He wants to go to the bank with Hugh.

2. Who do Edward, Micky and Hugh meet in the Argyll Room?
(a) Danny Robinson.
(b) Friends from high school.
(c) Call girls.
(d) Micky's father, Carlos.

3. What is the conversation about during tea in Part I, Chapter 5?
(a) Hugh.
(b) Joseph's new appointment at the bank.
(c) Seth's health.
(d) The financial crisis.

4. Who shows up at the costume ball and questions Hugh?
(a) Peter Middleton's brother.
(b) The men from the New York bank.
(c) Nora's parents.
(d) Maisie's brother, Danny.

5. In Part 1, Chapter 1, how many years have passed since the Prologue?
(a) 25.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1, Chapter 3, what job does Maisie find?

2. How much time passes before Hugh returns to London at the beginning of Part 2?

3. What position is Hugh an assistant to in Part I, Chapter 3?

4. Why does Hugh tell Edward that his mother is looking for him?

5. Why is Tonio crying when he meets up with Hugh in the woods?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the ratting and explain its significance to the story.

2. What more does Hugh know about Peter's drowning in Part 1, Chapter 3, now that he has corresponded with Albert Cammel, the fourth boy that was swimming that day?

3. How does Maisie come back into the picture in Part 1, Chapter 2? Who is she with? What happens with her and Hugh?

4. What kind of a character is Hugh?

5. What happens between Micky and Augusta in the church? What is the significance of their conversation?

6. What is the setting of the novel, and how does it affect the storyline immediately?

7. What transpires about marriage and taking care of oneself between Maisie and April in Part 1, Chapter 3?

8. What does Micky do to Seth in Part 1, Chapter 5? Why?

9. Why does Hugh go to the Greenbourne's for a job?

10. What kind of a character is Carlos Miranda?

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