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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. Betty will get upset with the twins and with the children if they do not come down for _______ immediately.
(a) Baths
(b) Tea
(c) Dinner
(d) Snacks

2. Emily believes the twins will probably be back before the __________ could arrive.
(a) Search parties
(b) Vockins
(c) Desserts
(d) Police squad

3. Who is now a probationary nurse at the start of 1940 in this section of the book?
(a) Emily
(b) Briony
(c) Cecilia
(d) Lola

4. Who does Emily think might be suitable in terms of marrying Cecilia?
(a) Danny
(b) Robbie
(c) Julian
(d) Marshall

5. Who is Briony comforted to know is with her sister Cecilia as they are searching for the twins?
(a) Robbie
(b) Emily
(c) Lola
(d) Leon

Short Answer Questions

1. Which army is retreating during the course of this chapter, although it is euphemistically referred to as making strategic withdrawals t more previously prepared positions?

2. Where do Leon and Cecilia walk to as they are talking to each other?

3. The first line of Briony's story used to be: "there was an/a __________ who _________."

4. Who does Briony tell about the attack first when she and the victim are walking toward the bridge?

5. Who is Emily reluctant to deal with in the beginning of this section, after the group realizes the twins have run away?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has been haunting Emily lately?

2. Who approaches Cecilia as she is changing for dinner?

3. What is the explanation for the disembodied human leg that Briony thinks she sees?

4. Why is Betty furious with Emily?

5. When Cecilia puts on the pink dress, who does she think she looks like?

6. What is hanging high up in a tree above the three stragglers from the retreating British army?

7. What has happened to Lola, according to Briony?

8. Why is Briony the one who is left with the adults to tell the story?

9. Why do the probationers live in constant fear of Sister Marjorie Drummond?

10. Who are the three stragglers that are moving toward a bombed out house as they attempt to find a shortcut to the sea?

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