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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7, 8, and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What keeps Flory from falling asleep?
(a) A dog continues to yelp outside his house.
(b) Birds are calling in the trees outside his house.
(c) A dog attacked Flo outside his house.
(d) Ma Hla May will not leave him alone.

2. What aspect of the setting is repeatedly mentioned in Chapter 2?
(a) The muddy roads
(b) The wind and cold
(c) The oppressive heat
(d) The monsoon season

3. Why does Flory let the distraction remain?
(a) He does not have the nerve to shoot the dog.
(b) He is too drunk to aim properly at the dog.
(c) He feels he deserves the punishment.
(d) He wants Flo to have a companion.

4. Flory feels Elizabeth may be a kindred spirit because ____________________________.
(a) she comments on the beauty of the natives.
(b) she reveals that she is lonely.
(c) she claims to love reading, as he does.
(d) she claims to want to settle down in Burma.

5. The village girl that visits that morning claims ____________________________.
(a) that she does not have enough bribe money.
(b) that she is U Po Kyin's daughter.
(c) that U Po Kyin is the father of her child.
(d) that she has a newspaper article U Po Kyin will want to see.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Flory's clerk bring him?

2. More than anything, Flory wishes for _________________________.

3. What does U Po Kyin believe will bring him merit at the end of the chapter?

4. What confrontation does Flory endure?

5. Ko S'la disapproves of Ma Hla May because _____________________________.

(see the answer key)

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