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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom did Jessica and Esmond ask for permission to get married?
(a) Dorothy Allhusen.
(b) Jessica's mother.
(c) A French judge.
(d) Jessica's legal guardian in France.

2. What did Jessica's father threaten would happen if she did not return from Spain to England?
(a) Jessica's father would marry her off to an old man.
(b) Esmond would go to prison.
(c) Esmond would be abandoned by his family.
(d) Jessica would be disinherited.

3. How did Jessica feel while attending the Communist Party meeting?
(a) Inspired.
(b) Unimpressed.
(c) Embarrassed.
(d) Intimidated.

4. In Washington, the Romillys met people who worked for what type of agencies?
(a) Agricultural agencies.
(b) Prohibition agencies.
(c) Immigration agencies.
(d) New Deal agencies.

5. Where did Jessica attend a protest meeting held by the Communist Party?
(a) Southampton.
(b) Manchester.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Kent.

6. What illness did Jessica's daughter contract as a 4-month old?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Polio.
(c) Whooping cough.
(d) Measles.

7. In which city did Esmond and Jessica try out his game-winning system?
(a) Paris.
(b) Dieppe.
(c) Nice.
(d) Marseille.

8. Where did Jessica and Esmond go for a vacation in June 1939?
(a) Oregon.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Illinois.
(d) New England.

9. When did Jessica and Esmond return to London from Corsica?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1939.

10. Which of Jessica's siblings became a part of her social circle in London?
(a) Nancy.
(b) Unity.
(c) Diana.
(d) Tom.

11. Who was Horton?
(a) An English butler.
(b) A doorman.
(c) A taxi driver.
(d) A clergyman.

12. Where did Jessica find work in New York?
(a) In a cafe.
(b) In an art gallery.
(c) At a music school.
(d) In a dress shop.

13. Who helped Jessica and Esmond translate news from the radio?
(a) Their neighbor.
(b) Their hotel's owner.
(c) Jessica translated herself.
(d) A local schoolteacher.

14. Who offered to let Esmond and Jessica a house to stay in?
(a) Dorothy Allhusen.
(b) Esmond's uncle Winston.
(c) Jessica's aunt.
(d) Roger Roughton.

15. Who sent a telegram that was delivered by the British pro-consul?
(a) Dorothy Allhusen.
(b) Peter Nevil.
(c) Jessica's father.
(d) Anthony Eden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Esmond's weekly salary at his New York job?

2. Instead of New Orleans, where did the Romillys end up after getting lost?

3. What did Esmond plan to do in New Orleans?

4. After the death of their daughter, to where did Esmond and Jessica travel?

5. How much money did Donahue tell Jessica and Esmond they had made?

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