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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Selina, Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Clive do a lot?
(a) Drinks.
(b) Paints.
(c) Plays the harmonica.
(d) Reads.

2. What does Clive do during the War?
(a) Cleans up dead bodies.
(b) Flies fighter planes.
(c) Digs fox holes.
(d) Is a cook in the Navy.

3. In Book 3, when she attends the wedding, which of the following does Selina mentally picture herself as being in relation to the bow on her head?
(a) A queen with a crown.
(b) Athena in her flowing gowns.
(c) Holding up the world at last.
(d) A unicorn with his horn.

4. Who is Father Peace?
(a) A man from Barbados who claims to be God.
(b) A priest who tries to help Selina's family.
(c) A missionary from the Caribbean.
(d) A man who Deighton believes to be God incarnate.

5. What is the name of Beryl's father?
(a) Percy.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Peter.
(d) William.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Suggie gives Selina some rum to drink in Book 2, what does she tell Selina that the rum will do to her?

2. When they get to the park, where do Beryl and Selina go?

3. During the argument between Selina and Beryl in Book 2, what does Selina believe that she will never do?

4. Why did parents avoid teaching their daughters about sex in the early part of the 20th Century?

5. Why does Selina think that babies are born by cutting the mother's stomach open?

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