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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 do Sarah and Bendrix do while Henry has his lunch tray in bed?
(a) Go to Bendrix's apartment.
(b) Have sex in the Miles' living room.
(c) Eat lunch in the Miles' living room.
(d) Go to Rules for lunch.

2. Who does Sarah notice for the first time while waiting on the Common for Bendrix?
(a) Henry.
(b) Lance, Parkis' son.
(c) Richard Smythe.
(d) Parkis.

3. What does Henry eat for lunch at the club while dining with Bendrix?
(a) A sandwich.
(b) A Vienna steak.
(c) Wiener Schnitzel.
(d) Steak and onions.

4. Why does Bendrix go to the basement alone when the V1 strikes near his apartment?
(a) Sarah has left to go back to Henry.
(b) To check and see if his landlady is there before Sarah joins him.
(c) To clear a path for Sarah to get to the basement.
(d) Sarah is hiding under his bed.

5. What code word do Sarah and Bendrix use during their affair to refer to love and sex?
(a) Dear.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Abandon.
(d) Onions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarah promise God she will do if He spares Bendrix's life?

2. Who was responsible for writing the report Parkis gives to Bendrix?

3. How does Sarah react to Bendrix as a writer?

4. Who does Sarah ask for peace to come to in the first diary entry Bendrix reads?

5. Why is Bendrix excused from military service during the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Bendrix, why did Sarah end their affair?

2. Why does Bendrix decide to invite Henry to lunch?

3. What is unusual about Richard Smythe's appearance?

4. What does Bendrix do to try and detract Henry's attention from his liaison with Sarah in the living room?

5. What is the significance of the man spilling his beer in Rules restaurant?

6. What does Bendrix find written inside of one of Sarah's children's books?

7. What does the nurse say Sarah requested before she died? How does Henry react?

8. Why does Bendrix begin to doubt that his story is one of hatred in this chapter?

9. What role does Parkis' son play in his investigation?

10. Why does Smythe end up calling Bendrix after seeing him?

(see the answer keys)

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