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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. What happens to Lieutenant Loveday while leading Felix's unit?
(a) He takes enemy fire.
(b) He steps on a mine.
(c) He leads the troops to the wrong location.
(d) He has an encounter with a rhino.

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

3. In Part Four, Chapter One, what does Wheech-Browning accidentally do?
(a) Trip on a land mine.
(b) Wreck a car.
(c) Leak a secret.
(d) Fire a weapon.

4. How does Felix get to Dar-es-Salaam?
(a) Automobile.
(b) Ship.
(c) Train.
(d) Horse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Felix's title in the British Army in Part Three?

2. What news does the British soldier arriving in German territory bring?

3. What does the doctor suspect of Charis?

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

5. In Part Three, where does Felix ask to be stationed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the interactions between Liesl and Gabriel in Part Three, Chapter Five.

2. Where is Gabriel held as a prisoner in Part Three, Chapter Six and how does he escape?

3. What news does Von Bishop receive by motorcycle?

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

5. What questions does Dr. Venables ask Felix about Charis?

6. How does Felix end up in Nanda?

7. What is "China Show?"

8. How did the affair between Felix and Charis begin?

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

10. What is shocking about Part Two, Chapter Thirteen?

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