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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tony decide?
(a) To kill himself.
(b) To give her the increased amount.
(c) To go away for six months.
(d) To kill Brenda.

2. Where is Milly going to meet Tony?
(a) At a place called Victoria.
(b) In Paris.
(c) In New York.
(d) In Amsterdam.

3. What annoys Tony the most when Milly arrives?
(a) She flirts with the detectives.
(b) She has brought along her daughter.
(c) She lites up a cigarette.
(d) She calls Tony by his wrong name.

4. How does Tony feel during his travels upstream in a small boat.
(a) Dejected.
(b) Exhilerated.
(c) Apprehensive.
(d) Quite uncomfortable.

5. Who calls a family meeting of Brenda's family?
(a) Brenda's mother.
(b) Reggie.
(c) No one.
(d) Marjorie.

6. What do Tony and Messinger do?
(a) Travel downstream alone.
(b) Give up.
(c) Beat each other up in a quarrel.
(d) Turn back.

7. Why is Jock appalled at Brenda's response?
(a) Because Brenda blames Tony.
(b) Because Brenda doesn't seem at all affected.
(c) Because Brenda seems relieved that it is her son John Andrew who is dead, not John Beaver.
(d) Because Brenda says that it serves Tony right.

8. What is wrong with Tony?
(a) He has a fever that keeps recurring.
(b) He is despondent.
(c) He is going blind.
(d) He has broken his leg.

9. What does Messinger hope to find now?
(a) The Pie Wie tribe.
(b) A way back to the Macushi.
(c) Medical help for Tony.
(d) The city of gold.

10. What does a Pie Wie tribal member tell Mr. Todd?
(a) That Messinger is lying on the river bank.
(b) That there is a ceremony later that day.
(c) That a strange man is wandering through the forest.
(d) That a search party is looking for Mr. Todd.

11. What propels Tony to start a dialog with Brenda?
(a) A letter from John Beaver.
(b) A letter from Jock.
(c) Nothing in particular.
(d) His grief about John Andrew.

12. How is Tony?
(a) He is better and starting the hike back.
(b) He is still weak, but is looking for Messinger.
(c) The Pie Wie tribe is caring for him.
(d) He is hallucinating.

13. What does Brenda ask about Tony's trip?
(a) If it is safe.
(b) If it will be profitable.
(c) Nothing.
(d) If it is going to take six months for sure.

14. Why does Jock apologize?
(a) For not helping John Andrew control his horse.
(b) For leaving Mrs. Rafferty at Hetton for a few days.
(c) For knowing about Brenda and John and not saying anything to Tony.
(d) For introducing Brenda and John initially.

15. Of whom does Tony not see much before she leaves?
(a) Marjorie.
(b) Brenda.
(c) His sister.
(d) Mrs. Rattery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who nurses Tony back to health?

2. To what sound does Tony awaken?

3. Who is Rosa?

4. What does Rosa say when Tony talks to her about going further on?

5. What would Brenda's increased demands mean?

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