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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Gabriel expect to be walking before meeting with British troops?
(a) Ten days.
(b) One week.
(c) A day or two.
(d) Three or four days.

2. Describe Charis' health in Part Two, Chapter Sixteen.
(a) Charis has developed serious cancer.
(b) Charis is not feeling well.
(c) Charis is relatively healthy.
(d) Charis is in perfect health.

3. From whose perspective is Part Two, Chapter Seventeen?
(a) Gabriel.
(b) Charis.
(c) Walter.
(d) Felix.

4. What obstacle stands in the way for Felix and Gilzean?
(a) A large river.
(b) An enemy attack.
(c) An African dictator.
(d) Lack of supplies.

5. How does Gabriel stay in the hospital?
(a) By keeping his leg infected.
(b) By bribing the nurses.
(c) By helping out the rest of the nurses.
(d) By pretending that he can't walk.

6. While in confinement in Part Three, who questions Gabriel?
(a) Lieutenant Loveday.
(b) Major Jordan.
(c) Sergeant Gilzean.
(d) Von Bishop.

7. In Part Three, Chapter Two, who annoys Felix?
(a) Sergeant Gilzean.
(b) Lieutenant Loveday.
(c) Liesl.
(d) Officer Smith.

8. What news does the British soldier arriving in German territory bring?
(a) That the Americans have entered the war.
(b) That the fighting continues in southern Africa.
(c) That the Germans should retreat or face destruction.
(d) The war is over.

9. Where does Charis meet her lover in a hotel room?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Aylesbury.
(c) Salisbury.
(d) Coventry.

10. A zeppelin is referred to as what by the Germans?
(a) "India Cicus."
(b) "China Show."
(c) "African Antics."
(d) "Big Blimp."

11. How often does Charis write Gabriel?
(a) Weekly.
(b) Monthly.
(c) Never.
(d) Daily.

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

13. In Part Four, who is Felix to train?
(a) The East Africans.
(b) The Germans.
(c) The Portuguese.
(d) The Indians.

14. Given the clues at the end of Part Two, what conclusion can be drawn about Charis?
(a) That she is an alcoholic.
(b) That she is psychotic.
(c) That she is pregnant.
(d) That she had an abortion.

15. What shocks Walter when he enters his house?
(a) That it is empty.
(b) The smell.
(c) The broken glass.
(d) That it is immaculate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of Part Two, Chapter Fourteen?

2. In Charis' letter to Gabriel in Part Two, what does she tell him?

3. What item does Felix notice is missing at the pond?

4. What happens to the Colonel in Part Two, Chapter Fourteen?

5. From whose point of view is Part Two, Chapter Thirteen?

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