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

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

3. What is the problem, Briony finally decides, in regards to the play she wants to stage?
(a) The play itself
(b) The twins
(c) The costumes
(d) Lola

4. What is also attacked for wasting Briony's time, as she criticizes herself?
(a) The vase
(b) Lola
(c) Marshall
(d) Playwriting

5. Who does Briony refuse to acknowledge when they come upon her at the bridge?
(a) Leon
(b) Cecilia
(c) Lola
(d) Emily

Short Answer Questions

1. Robbie's mother, __________, is a woman whose services are greatly valued by the Tallis family.

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

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

4. What does Cecilia see Briony doing from the window of the guest room?

5. Who does Briony behead in the context of the story she is hastily crafting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lola see through the window of an unused bedroom?

2. What does Briony realize to be one of the strengths of writing for drama?

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

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

5. What is Robbie thinking of as he soaks in a bathtub?

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

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

8. What causes Cecilia to stop fixing the vase?

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

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

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