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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about the Catholic church does Henry find "materialistic"?
(a) Transubstantiation.
(b) The statues of Christ.
(c) The ornate decoration.
(d) The statues of Mary.

2. Who is at Sarah's house when she returns from her walk?
(a) Parkis.
(b) The police.
(c) One of Henry's colleagues.
(d) Bendrix.

3. What event does Bendrix take as proof Sarah would have wanted to be cremated?
(a) She never spoke about religion to him or to Henry.
(b) The last time he saw her she was in a church.
(c) She chose to have her wedding at the registry rather than a church.
(d) In her diary she renounced God.

4. Who did Sarah ask to see on her death bed?
(a) A priest.
(b) Henry.
(c) Richard Smythe.
(d) Bendrix.

5. What does Sarah promise to do if Bendrix answers the phone when she calls from Bigwell-on-Sea?
(a) Return home to Bendrix.
(b) Devote herself to Henry.
(c) Never see Bendrix again.
(d) Devote herself to God.

6. What reason does Sylvia give for her knowledge of the grounds at Golders Green?
(a) Her mother was cremated there recently.
(b) Her father worked at the crematorium.
(c) Her father was cremated there two years earlier.
(d) She grew up near there.

7. What example does Bendrix use to try and convince Henry God is fictional?
(a) A three legged man with fish scales.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Sarah's cremation.
(d) A four legged man with fish scales.

8. What reason does Smythe give for belief in resurrection?
(a) People will believe anything the church tells them.
(b) People want to believe they can be born again.
(c) People want to believe their bodies are divine.
(d) People need their bodies.

9. Who does Sarah kiss while touring the shelters at Bigwell-on-Sea?
(a) Dunstan.
(b) The warden.
(c) Sir William Mallock.
(d) Henry.

10. What happens to Sarah while she is sitting in the church with Bendrix?
(a) She falls asleep.
(b) She begins weeping.
(c) She becomes much sicker.
(d) She begins to believe in God.

11. What aspect of his novel, 'The Ambitious Host', does Henry say Bendrix "got all wrong"?
(a) A husband wanting his dead wife to come back.
(b) A house feeling empty after one's wife dies.
(c) The belief that love lives forever.
(d) A house feeling more lively when friends are there.

12. Why does Sarah decide to visit Richard Smythe?
(a) To inquire about the spots on his face.
(b) To see if he can convince her that her promise to God can be broken.
(c) To begin an affair with him.
(d) To convert him to Christianity.

13. What about Richard Smythe does Sarah find beautiful?
(a) His confidence.
(b) His beliefs.
(c) His hands.
(d) His scarred face.

14. Why does Bendrix break his date with Sylvia?
(a) He feels guilty for bringing her to Sarah's funeral.
(b) Henry disapproves of Sylvia.
(c) He must accompany Sarah's mother home.
(d) In order to take Sarah's mother to dinner.

15. Why does Sarah not want to leave her home the night Bendrix calls?
(a) She is sick and in pain.
(b) She no longer loves Bendrix.
(c) She doesn't want to alarm Henry.
(d) It is raining.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Henry afraid to go to sleep after Sarah dies?

2. What does Bendrix notice in the margins of Sarah's copy of 'Last Expedition'?

3. How does Henry's secretary refer to him?

4. What does Smythe actually believe cured his skin condition?

5. What does Father Crompton promise to do for Sarah?

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