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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 does Thomas wonder about Portia and Eddie?
(a) What Anna will think.
(b) If he should have a talk with Eddie.
(c) If he should disallow Portia from seeing Eddie.
(d) What Matchett will think.

2. What is the problem with Anna, according to Eddie?
(a) She is not very intelligent, but she believes she is.
(b) She is nosy, and always trying to get involved in others' affairs.
(c) She likes nothing better than to make a joke of another person.
(d) She thinks she is better than everyone around her is.

3. What is Anna upset with Portia about in part 1, chapter 2?
(a) The contents of Portia's diary.
(b) Portia's relationship with Thomas.
(c) The condition of Portia's bedroom.
(d) A letter Anna discovered, written to Portia by Eddie.

4. What is Portia's last memory of her mother?
(a) Waving goodbye to her mother from the deck of a boat.
(b) Portia doesn't remember her mother at all.
(c) Driving her mother to the train station.
(d) Driving her mother to the clinic.

5. Where did Mr. Quayne meet Irene?
(a) York.
(b) London.
(c) Hampshire.
(d) Dorset.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Anna just before she met Thomas?

2. When does Matchett come to wish Portia goodnight?

3. What does Thomas think of Anna's idea that Portia is unnerving when she stares at them?

4. Where does Thomas work?

5. What is the first of Eddie's character flaws to be revealed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Miss Paullie's school like?

2. How does Major Brutt respond when Portia asks him if he would marry her?

3. Why does Dickie ask Portia to dance at the party?

4. Portia tells Lilian she wants to confront Eddie about what?

5. What happens at the movie theater?

6. What advice does Daphne give Portia, regarding Eddie?

7. What is the reason Matchett gives Portia for Anna's displeasure with her in chapter 2?

8. What does Dickie tell Portia before she leaves Waikiki?

9. What happens when Matchett finds the letter from Eddie under Portia's pillow?

10. What does Portia think about as she sits in Thomas's study with him?

(see the answer keys)

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