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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 Colonel Mayhew question leaving out of the pageant?
(a) The British Commonwealth.
(b) The present Royal family.
(c) The Suffrage movement.
(d) The British Army.

2. What is painted, in addition to the wall, on the sheet?
(a) A man on a ladder.
(b) A tree.
(c) A stormy sky.
(d) A chest of gold.

3. In the evening, what painting does Mrs. Swithin stop by?
(a) A painting of Paris.
(b) A painting of London.
(c) A painting of Berlin.
(d) A painting of Venice.

4. After the pageant, who carries flowers to her husband's grave?
(a) Mrs. Clopton.
(b) Mrs. Carter.
(c) Mrs. Chalmers.
(d) Mrs. Chetwood.

5. How does Mrs. Mayhew expect the pageant will end?
(a) With fireworks.
(b) With a sing-along.
(c) With a Grand Ensemble around the Union Jack.
(d) With "God Save the King".

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the clergyman in the romantic comedy play?

2. What does Miss La Trobe shout at the villagers while they are singing, "Where There's a Will, There's a Way"?

3. What makes Isa angry about Giles when she sees him in the barn?

4. Why does Flavinda hide in "Where There's a Will, There's a Way"?

5. What is the character, Eleanor's, surname?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the main characters of "A Picnic Party", and who do they find they have in common?

2. Where does Isa invite William to go with her?

3. What is the premise of "Where There's a Will, There's A Way"?

4. Where does Miss La Trobe go after the pageant?

5. How does "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" end?

6. How does one audience member critique the play-within-a-play, "Where There's a Will, There's a Way"?

7. What scheme does Lady Harraden come up with involving a con-man?

8. How does Miss La Trobe evaluate her pageant after it is done? What does she begin to plan as she leaves Pointz Hall?

9. What does Reverend Streatfield ask the audience for at the end of the pageant? What interrupts him?

10. What does the audience talk about while they wait for the next scene of the pageant to commence?

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