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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. Who is the older sister of Emily that she describes as precocious and scheming?
(a) Arabella
(b) Hermione
(c) Randalia
(d) Cecilia

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

3. What does Robbie do for the Tallis family?
(a) Makes meals
(b) Plays music
(c) Gardens
(d) Farms

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

5. Where does Robbie want to go, with the help of the money of Jack Tallis?
(a) Engineering classes
(b) Medical school
(c) Europe
(d) Live a carefree life

Short Answer Questions

1. What is all that remains of the surprising scene to which Briony is a witness?

2. Which member of the Tallis family is coming home, hence Briony's preoccupation with writing the play for this particular person's celebration?

3. What does Cecilia say to Briony when she would have nightmares? "________. It's only a dream."

4. What is the word Robbie adds in impulsively to the letter, although he decides he will not send that copy to Cecilia?

5. What kind of writer does Briony become at this point?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Robbie presume will happen in relation to the funding for his future schooling?

2. What is Briony's reaction to her big brother when he approaches her?

3. Why does Cecilia not go to the kitchen to fill up the vase with water?

4. Why does Emily retreat to her bedroom each and every day?

5. What do the children do in response to Emily because her illness stops Emily from giving her children a mother's attention?

6. Why is Lola embarrassed by Marshall?

7. What does Cecilia try to do in order to recover the appearance of the vase?

8. For what does Robbie type a letter to Cecilia as an apology?

9. What are some of the things that Robbie's tiny office contains?

10. What does Briony think she should have done for her brother, Leon's, return?

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