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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What words of encouragement does Jeanne offer to Stephen?
(a) She will wait for him to return.
(b) Isabelle still loves him.
(c) He is a good leader for his men.
(d) The war will not last forever.

2. Where is the climactic explosion in the tunneling work?
(a) Hayes Outlook.
(b) Messines Ridge.
(c) Chestnut Hill.
(d) Loire Valley.

3. How many notebooks does Francoise estimate there are in the attic?
(a) 3.
(b) 15.
(c) 40 or so.
(d) 20-30.

4. What does Elizabeth know about Robert?
(a) He is very ill.
(b) He is cowardly.
(c) He will never leave his wife.
(d) He is a genius.

5. How many men, including himself, still survive from Stephen's original platoon?
(a) 16.
(b) 3.
(c) 51.
(d) 12.

6. What does Stephen recall when he visits Amiens?
(a) His boyhood days.
(b) His university years.
(c) A Christmas holiday with friends.
(d) The time he spent with the Azaires.

7. Who dies in the aftermath of the tunnel explosion?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Jack.
(c) Jones.
(d) Evans.

8. How many of Weir's men are buried in the tunnel explosion?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 22.

9. What organization does Elizabeth visit in Buckinghamshire to try to learn more about Stephen?
(a) Army headquarters.
(b) Public Records office.
(c) The Red Cross.
(d) The library.

10. How does Weir die?
(a) He receives a bayonet injury.
(b) A sniper shoots him in the head.
(c) He drowns.
(d) He is blown up by a grenade.

11. What does Jeanne tell Stephen about Isabelle?
(a) She has remarried.
(b) She is living in Amiens.
(c) She has three children.
(d) She is terminally ill.

12. What does Robert remove from his flat before Elizabeth arrives?
(a) Items belonging to his family.
(b) Beer bottles.
(c) Dirty clothes.
(d) Dirty dishes.

13. Elizabeth is advised to contact __________________ at the Star and Garter veterans home in Southland for more information about Stephen.
(a) Caswell.
(b) Brennan.
(c) Morton.
(d) Weir.

14. Section 13 takes place in which country?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Ireland.
(d) England.

15. What does Jeanne admit to Stephen?
(a) She loves him.
(b) He has a daughter.
(c) Isabelle loves him.
(d) Isabelle has died.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Elizabeth NOT find in the trunk in her mother's attic?

2. Jeanne agrees to meet Stephen the next night to tell him _______________________.

3. Weir's company digs a shallow tunnel to listen for _____________________.

4. What does Elizabeth do at the arch in Albert?

5. How long has it been since Elizabeth gave Bob the diary and he has had no progress with it?

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