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

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

3. In which month did Jessica and Esmond arrive in New York?
(a) April.
(b) August.
(c) February.
(d) November.

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

5. What did Jessica and Esmond decide to wait for prior to returning to England?
(a) For their money to run out.
(b) Until their parents had forgiven them.
(c) For the fighting to begin.
(d) Until they had had visited 15 states.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Esmond work in France?

2. What was Michael Straight's position at the magazine for which he worked?

3. What game did Esmond believe that he found a system to win at?

4. What illness did Jessica's daughter contract as a 4-month old?

5. Why did Jessica and Esmond decide to move to America?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Jessica and Esmond decide to do after Esmond lost his job?

2. How did Esmond come to be part owner of a restaurant in Miami?

3. Why did Jessica refuse to have lunch on the ship that Nancy was supposed to have been on?

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

5. While living in Washington, D.C., what were the Romillys hired to write and by whom?

6. Why did Esmond and Jessica decide to go to Washington, D.C.?

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

8. Why did Jessica and Esmond leave Spain?

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

10. In the time after they left New York, what would Jessica and Esmond discuss with many of the people they met?

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