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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the language Unity and Jessica made up?

2. Where did the Mitfords live for several months after their holiday cruise?

3. What did Nancy publish in the 1920s?

4. According to Muv, what did marriage result in?

5. While Jessica was planning to go to Spain, where was Muv making plans to go?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the institutions in which the Mitford family had an interest?

2. What did Giles Romilly tell Jessica when they met for the first time?

3. What did Jessica organize with her friend Peter Nevile?

4. What did Jessica think of the Romilly brothers' book?

5. What caused tension between Jessica and one of her sisters on the cruise to the Mediterranean?

6. What was the Society of Hons?

7. How did Jessica feel about the wedding of her sister Diana, and why didn't she attend?

8. What did Jessica find out about her cousin Esmond in London?

9. What did the younger generation blame for the problems of the 1930s?

10. After Diana married, how did Jessica's opinion of her change?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Jessica's humor in her memoir. What kind of humor does she use? How does this affect the reader's experience? Of what events does she make light that might be surprising to some?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Jessica's desire for education growing up. In what form did she receive education during her childhood? What did she fear would happen if she did not receive a proper education? Why didn't her mother allow her to go to school? What did her mother think was the role of women?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss what happened to Jessica after her husband's death. Was the direction in which she went surprising? What notable things occurred in her later years?

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