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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Portia feel about herself when the teacher reprimands her?
(a) She will never amount to anything, and should stop trying.
(b) She is just another teenage girl, no different from the rest of her class.
(c) She is somehow different, and less, than all the other girls are.
(d) She is somehow more mature than the rest of her class.

2. What do Portia and her friend take a path through to get to school?
(a) The town centre.
(b) A cemetery.
(c) A farm.
(d) A park.

3. What position does Thomas hold at his work?
(a) He is a lower-level employee.
(b) He owns the company.
(c) He is a supervisor.
(d) He is a partner and partial owner.

4. What does Lilian ask Portia at lunch in part 1, chapter 4?
(a) If Portia is inattentive in class because she is ill.
(b) Why Portia hadn't told her about the letter.
(c) What happened to Portia's parents.
(d) Why Portia has been absent so much in recent days.

5. Where does Anna send Portia in part 1, chapter 2?
(a) To Thomas's study.
(b) To Portia's room.
(c) To the stables.
(d) To the grocer.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city is the novel set?

2. What does Portia think about as she sits in front of the fire in Thomas's study?

3. In what time does the novel begin?

4. Who is Portia's mother?

5. What does Anna want Major Brutt to tell Robert Pidgeon?

(see the answer key)

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