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

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

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

4. What does Marshall give to the children in this room as he is talking to them?
(a) Amo sample
(b) Books
(c) A vase
(d) A glass of water

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In how many points of view does Briony want to write about the scene she has just seen?

2. What is Lola's relation to Briony?

3. What does Lola not want the answer to #54 to talk about around her brothers?

4. Who is the friend of Cecilia's brother that is coming to visit?

5. What has Leon seen Briony doing by the lake?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Briony imagine is happening when she sees Robbie and Cecilia are out at the fountain?

2. What causes Cecilia to stop fixing the vase?

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

4. What is wrong with the play, according to Briony?

5. What is the name of the play Briony has been trying to prepare for a few days?

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

7. Why does Robbie think he should have turned down Leon's invitation to dinner?

8. Why does Briony want to prepare her play to be seen by others?

9. What does Cecilia's father disapprove of which she does in spite of this disapproval?

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

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