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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Briony angrily slashing as she constructs a new story for the arrival of her brother?
(a) Willows
(b) The birch tree
(c) The grass
(d) Nettles

2. Briony often wonders if others think about life's _________ as much as she does.
(a) Mysteries
(b) Oddities
(c) Questions
(d) Boredom

3. Where does Lola see Briony, thus realizing that the play is dead?
(a) By the lake
(b) In her bedroom
(c) In the fountain
(d) On the island

4. What kind of writer does Briony become at this point?
(a) Immoral mental creationism
(b) Creative archetypal
(c) Irrealism narrative
(d) Amoral psychological realism

5. In Robbie's office, there is a photograph of __________ celebrating their honeymoon.
(a) His friends
(b) Leon and Lola
(c) Cecilia's parents
(d) His parents

Short Answer Questions

1. About what subject is the book from the library that Robbie borrowed days before?

2. Where does Briony sit alone, holding the script of her first play?

3. Why does Emily retreat to her bedroom every afternoon?

4. What is the unthinkable obscenity that the answer to question #52 utters?

5. In what building of the Tallis estate does Robbie sit in a bathtub to soak?

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