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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Esmond and Jessica learn was the purpose of the business for which Esmond worked?
(a) To launder money.
(b) To rip off rich clientele.
(c) To lose money.
(d) To secretly collect information about the Nazis.

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

3. What were Jessica and Esmond hired to write about?
(a) Their political views.
(b) Their time in Spain.
(c) Their experiences in America.
(d) Their aristocratic backgrounds.

4. Where did Jessica and Esmond marry?
(a) Bezonvaux.
(b) Bordeaux.
(c) Boulogne.
(d) Bayonne.

5. How did Esmond think that he and Jessica could make money in America?
(a) By working for a newspaper.
(b) By lecturing on English life.
(c) By gambling.
(d) By selling homemade jam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Clifford Durr's wife's name?

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

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

4. Who was Mr. Donahue?

5. Upon arriving in New York, what did Jessica and Esmond notice about Americans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Esmond find a job doing in Washington, D.C.?

2. Where did Esmond find employment, and how was the pay?

3. Who was Mr. Donahue, and what did he do?

4. With whom did Jessica find a new job in 1939?

5. Where did Jessica and Esmond find employment in London?

6. What did a friend offer Jessica and Esmond to help with their financial troubles?

7. What story was replayed in the press when Jessica and Esmond moved to New York?

8. Whom did Jessica and Esmond ask for permission to marry?

9. What was a typical day like for Jessica and Esmond in Bilbao?

10. What happened to Jessica and Esmond's daughter?

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