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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Charis commit suicide?
(a) She drowns.
(b) She hangs herself.
(c) She overdoses on pills.
(d) She doesn't commit suicide.

2. Whose grave is desecrated at Walter's house in Part Two?
(a) Walter's wife.
(b) Walter's elderly mother.
(c) Walter's baby daughter.
(d) Walter's former servant.

3. After playing cards, what does Aristedes do?
(a) Smokes a cigarette.
(b) Hires a prostitute.
(c) Drinks scotch.
(d) Looks at pornographic pictures.

4. How does Part Two, Chapter Thirteen end?
(a) Charis and her lover kiss.
(b) Charis and her lover part seperate ways.
(c) Charis and her lover decide to come out in public.
(d) Charis and her lover are caught.

5. In Part Three, Chapter Eight, what does Felix wonder about Loveday?
(a) What Loveday might have looked like.
(b) Where Loveday will go.
(c) What Loveday will do next.
(d) What Loveday might have said in French.

6. What worries Charis' lover?
(a) That he is hurting Charis by making her feel guilty.
(b) That he will lose Charis.
(c) That Gabriel will find out.
(d) That they will be caught.

7. What language does Aristedes speak?
(a) Spanish.
(b) English.
(c) Afrikaans.
(d) Portuguese.

8. Who helps Gabriel escape?
(a) Walter.
(b) Von Bishop.
(c) Felix.
(d) Liesl.

9. What is Walter's assignment in the British army?
(a) Gun cleaner.
(b) Supply officer.
(c) Spy.
(d) Local expert.

10. What information does Felix find out about Gabriel?
(a) Gabriel writes letters daily to Charis.
(b) Gabriel turns sides in Nanda and is now fighting for the Germans.
(c) Gabriel commits suicide.
(d) Gabriel escapes two days before the British caputred Nanda.

11. What main event occurs in Part Two, Chapter Four?
(a) Gabriel and Felix find each other.
(b) Gabriel and Liesl begin an affair.
(c) Charis is killed.
(d) A large battle in Africa.

12. What does Gabriel do in the evenings at the hospital?
(a) Provides intelligence to the Germans.
(b) Works as a janitor.
(c) Sneaks out to watch Liesl bathe.
(d) Plays cards with the other patients.

13. What motivates Felix to work hard at the Officer Training Corps?
(a) Charis.
(b) Getting out of the army.
(c) Gabriel.
(d) The cause of the war.

14. What item does Felix notice is missing at the pond?
(a) The diving board.
(b) The rope swing.
(c) The bench where they first kissed.
(d) A heavy statue.

15. What does the doctor suspect of Charis?
(a) That she is the victim of a crime.
(b) That she is an alcoholic.
(c) That she is mentally unstable.
(d) That she is having an affair.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Gabriel expect to be walking before meeting with British troops?

2. In Part Four, who is Felix to train?

3. Given the clues at the end of Part Two, what conclusion can be drawn about Charis?

4. What song does Charis' lover hum?

5. After the war, what changes Felix's plans?

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