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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. In Part Three, why will fighting stop for two to three months?
(a) Supplies are en route.
(b) The rainy season will begin.
(c) A peace agreement will be reached.
(d) A new infantry is coming to take over.

2. What alerts the Germans to the whereabouts of Gabriel?
(a) A fire.
(b) Gabriel's scent.
(c) Gabriel's tracks.
(d) A gunshot.

3. In Nanda, who informs Felix about the whereabouts of Gabriel?
(a) Askaris.
(b) Liesl.
(c) Walter.
(d) Von Bishop.

4. What literary device does the author use to describe how Charis' affair started?
(a) Personification.
(b) Flashback.
(c) Irony.
(d) Simile.

5. What song does Charis' lover hum?
(a) Man of Pompeii.
(b) Lily of Laguna.
(c) Love of My Life.
(d) Lady of the Sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the birds circling indicate?

2. Which of the following words best describes Part Two, Chapter Thirteen?

3. How many miles is it from where Felix gets off the train to Kibongo?

4. What motivates Felix to work hard at the Officer Training Corps?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Walter find when he returns to his farm?

2. Describe Gabriel's journal.

3. What happens when Felix goes to the pond to think in Part Two, Chapter Seventeen?

4. What changes Felix's mind about spending time on Walter's farm and then returning to England?

5. What is Von Bishop's reaction to what happens to Gabriel when he is caught?

6. Do you think Von Bishop wants to go after Gabriel? Why or why not?

7. How does Felix nearly get shot while teaching the Portuguese troops?

8. What is "China Show?"

9. What news does Von Bishop receive by motorcycle?

10. Describe the letters Charis writes to Gabriel in Part Two, Chapter Sixteen.

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