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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Emily make sure the children have done before she retreats?
(a) Clean their rooms
(b) Eat a sensible lunch
(c) Take a bath
(d) Do their homework

3. What does Briony think she should have done for her brother?
(a) Written a story
(b) Written a poem
(c) Nothing
(d) Made him a medal

4. Robbie knows he must speak to Cecilia about his feelings before she _________.
(a) Tells her father
(b) Tells someone else
(c) Goes away
(d) Finds someone else

5. What has fallen into disrepair, which is a shame as it is an architectural point of interest?
(a) The gazebo
(b) Island temple
(c) The house itself
(d) The fountain

6. What does Robbie apologize for doing in the library the other day in the note he writes to Cecilia?
(a) Stealing a book
(b) Breaking the statue
(c) Taking a piece of paper
(d) Entering barefoot

7. Which member of the Tallis family is coming home, hence Briony's preoccupation with writing the play for this particular person's celebration?
(a) Jack
(b) Leon
(c) Lola
(d) Cecilia

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

9. What does Briony not want to have done with her anymore?
(a) Kissing
(b) Cuddling
(c) Pitying
(d) Soothing

10. Where does Briony decide she will wait until some real event takes place?
(a) The fountain
(b) The grass
(c) The bridge
(d) The garden

11. How might Lola and her twin brothers be described at this point of the story?
(a) Happy as can be
(b) Excited to be in the play
(c) Worried about Briony
(d) Homesick

12. What does Briony think Robbie is asking Cecilia to do?
(a) Leave him
(b) Give him the vase
(c) Marry him
(d) Give him money

13. Whose passing into adulthood is Emily mourning in this section of the book?
(a) Hermione
(b) Lola
(c) Briony
(d) Cecilia

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emily want to turn the roast into for Leon's arrival?

2. Who does Cecilia want to avoid in the kitchen, causing her to have to go to the fountain for water?

3. What does Briony rip in half when she enters the room where Cecilia is sitting?

4. Briony often wonders if others think about life's _________ as much as she does.

5. What does Briony think is wrong about the scene she just saw between Robbie and Cecilia?

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