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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. After the family meeting, where does one of Brenda's brothers go?
(a) Back to his own city.
(b) To talk to the judge.
(c) To talk to his uncle.
(d) To see Tony.

2. What does Tony slip to the man who visits the camp?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A hundred pound note.
(c) A piece of paper with his name on it.
(d) His watch.

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

4. What does Tony miss while he is drugged?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The arrival and departure of a search party.
(c) The marriage of Mr. Todd and a village woman.
(d) A letter from Brenda.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Brenda trying to get?

2. What does Messinger hope to find now?

3. What is wrong with Tony?

4. Who nurses Tony back to health?

5. Why does Jock apologize?

Short Essay Questions

1. What seems to be contrasted in this chapter?

2. How long is it before Tony and Messinger are able to talk to the men of the village about what they want?

3. Why does Tony have to appear to be in the wrong?

4. How does Brenda use the death of her son to justify her request for a divorce?

5. How has Tony again entrusted his life to someone for whom that trust is not valid?

6. What do Messigner and Tony decide to do and do you think they make the best choice?

7. How has John Beaver fared through the saga of Tony and Brenda's failed marriage?

8. How is it that Tony seems to be the "bad" guy in a number of ways?

9. How is the inadequacies of the social circle in which Brenda revolves evident with the death of John Andrew?

10. What is Tony's position in Brenda's social circle by the end of this chapter?

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