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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What accounts for the change in Mrs. Lackersteen's behavior?
(a) Her fear of Lackersteen's infidelity
(b) Her drinking problem
(c) Her distaste for Burmese culture
(d) Her social aspirations

2. What does Elizabeth do when Flory calls out to her?
(a) She ignores him.
(b) She runs to him.
(c) She tells Ko S'la to tell Flory not to speak to her.
(d) She looks at him but does not speak.

3. What ugly image accompanies the description of the cemetery and graves?
(a) The rat holes leading down into the graves.
(b) The white headstones and neatly trimmed graves.
(c) The creeping jasmine and orange-hearted flowers.
(d) The gravestones of sixteen Europeans.

4. What does Mrs. Lackersteen plan to do at the end of Chapter 23?
(a) Invite Flory to dinner in order to let him down gently
(b) Invite Flory to dinner in order to court Elizabeth again
(c) Invite Macgregor to dinner in order to court Elizabeth
(d) Invite Verrall to dinner in order to question him about marriage

5. At the end of Chapter 22, what signals a change?
(a) The river has overflowed.
(b) The rain has finally stopped.
(c) The English have returned to their camps.
(d) The rain has finally started.

6. When Lackersteen invites Verrall to the Club, __________________________.
(a) Verrall declines the invitation.
(b) Verrall comes to the Club with a native friend.
(c) Verrall ignores the invitation.
(d) Verrall comes to the Club at once.

7. Flory is convinced he is ______________________.
(a) in love with Elizabeth.
(b) in love with Ma Hla May.
(c) destined to remain a bachelor.
(d) in love with Mrs. Lackersteen.

8. How has Flory's attitude toward nature changed?
(a) He is provoked and emboldened by the beauty of nature.
(b) He is indifferent to the beauty of nature because he is mourning the loss of Elizabeth.
(c) He is more aware of the beauty of nature because he is in love.
(d) He is unaware of the beauty of nature because his work has distracted him.

9. Who are Francis and Samuel?
(a) Two Eurasian men Flory has befriended.
(b) Flory's servants.
(c) Elizabeth's uncles.
(d) Two English men from the Club.

10. Why does Elizabeth seem more approachable to Flory that evening?
(a) She starts to embrace Burmese culture.
(b) She is less inhibited when she is drunk.
(c) She is not wearing spectacles.
(d) She wears her hair down.

11. Why does Flory not get to propose to Elizabeth?
(a) Elizabeth refuses to hear his offer.
(b) He is interrupted twice.
(c) Flory loses his nerve because of his birthmark.
(d) Lackersteen finds them kissing outside and objects.

12. Flory and Elizabeth have an intimate moment _____________________________.
(a) right before Flory kills the tiger.
(b) right after they leave the headman's house.
(c) right after she kills a jungle cock.
(d) right after she misses her first shot.

13. Why are Elizabeth and Verrall indifferent to the heat?
(a) They have lived in warm climates their entire lives.
(b) They are young, and heat does not bother the young.
(c) They are busy drinking most of the time, and do not notice.
(d) They are too distracted by each other to notice.

14. How does Orwell describe the leopard?
(a) Purring
(b) Hissing
(c) Meowing
(d) Sobbing

15. Elizabeth understands that Flory ________________________.
(a) wants her to admire the Burmese.
(b) has a Burmese wife.
(c) wants her to return with him to England.
(d) does not find her attractive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ko S'la tell Flory he should not attempt to play polo?

2. How do the Europeans react to Maxwell's death?

3. Why do the members of the Club suddenly allow the butler into their conversation?

4. At the end of the chapter, Flory begins to believe ______________________________.

5. Although Elizabeth and Verrall ride together frequently, __________________________________.

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