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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. Where does Cecilia meet up with her half-drunk brother, finally, after escaping from her mother and the drama of the kitchen?
(a) Kitchen
(b) Garden
(c) Library
(d) Drawing room

2. What do Leon and Marshall prepare in order to renew their search for the twins that was halted when the attack was discovered?
(a) Map
(b) Torches
(c) Instructions
(d) Weapons

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

4. Who is the character that startles Briony as she is trying to write another story for her brother?
(a) Lola
(b) Leon
(c) Cecilia
(d) Ronnie

5. What does Emily watch as she looks at her unused harpsichord?
(a) The children
(b) The wedding picture
(c) A shooting star
(d) Two moths

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Briony comforted to know is with her sister Cecilia as they are searching for the twins?

2. Who is loud and jolly, and nothing like Lola, according to Briony's observations?

3. What can gentleman do during hot days in England, according to Leon?

4. What are each of the twins holding as they are crying, perhaps a symbol of their broken family?

5. Where is Robbie injured according to the opening of this second of the book?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Lola's response to the letter that Robbie has written for Cecilia, as told to her by Briony?

3. Who interrupts Briony as she is trying to write a new story?

4. How does Briony reveal her true self within this section?

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

6. How does Briony escape Cecelia's questioning?

7. What has been haunting Emily lately?

8. What is Jack's response to the disappearance of the twins?

9. How does Cecilia react to Robbie's apology to her about the note?

10. Why is Betty furious with Emily?

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