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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Briony freed from when she writes a play, much to her delight?
(a) Good spelling
(b) Grammar
(c) The "She saids"
(d) Full sentences

2. What does Cecilia say to Briony when she would have nightmares? "________. It's only a dream."
(a) Quiet darling.
(b) Shhh.
(c) Calm down
(d) Come back

3. What play does the answer to #54 talk about with Lola?
(a) Arabella
(b) Hamlet
(c) Macbeth
(d) Romeo and Juliet

4. What is the word Robbie adds in impulsively to the letter, although he decides he will not send that copy to Cecilia?
(a) Thrust
(b) Penis
(c) Cunt
(d) Sex

5. What kind of business does the answer to #54 own?
(a) Movie company
(b) Chocolate factory
(c) Medical practice
(d) Banking office

6. Who was a war hero whose funeral Cecilia barely remembers?
(a) Clem
(b) Leon
(c) Jack
(d) Marshall

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

8. Who accepts full responsibility for breaking the item in #19?
(a) Robbie
(b) Both do
(c) Neither do
(d) Cecilia

9. Robbie the son of _________________.
(a) Constance Turner
(b) The family cleaning lady
(c) The local banking heir
(d) Paul

10. What do Emily's daughters call her, knowing that she does not give them the attention they should get as her children?
(a) Mama
(b) Emily
(c) Mom
(d) Tanta

11. Who does Robbie ask to bring the note to Cecilia instead of bringing it to her himself?
(a) Briony
(b) Leon
(c) Lola
(d) Emily

12. What is the name of Briony's first play production that she has been feverishly preparing?
(a) The Trials of Cecilia and Robbie
(b) The Tragedy of Leon and his Turtle
(c) The Tales of Arabela
(d) The Trials of Arabella

13. Where does Briony sit alone, holding the script of her first play?
(a) In the fountain
(b) Nursery
(c) Grass
(d) Library

14. Where does Briony see Robbie and Cecilia talking?
(a) Nursery
(b) Fountain
(c) Library
(d) Kitchen

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What breaks when Robbie and Cecilia argue over who will help with filling it?

2. Who is no longer the horsy sister, according to Robbie and his daydreams?

3. Who cannot act, as seen in the play practice, causing Briony to become even more frustrated with her play?

4. How old are the twins, Jackson and Pierrot?

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

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