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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 are these two people doing when Dora and Mildred see them during their outing?
(a) Kissing.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Holding hands.
(d) Buying candy.

2. How do Mildred's behaviors often seem?
(a) Archaic and overly proper.
(b) Eccentric to others.
(c) Controlling.
(d) Calculated and conniving.

3. On their way home from the school event, who do Dora and Mildred meet?
(a) A Wren officer.
(b) A pilot.
(c) A spy.
(d) A diplomat.

4. How does Mildred feel when she first meet Helena?
(a) Confident.
(b) Inferior.
(c) Flabergasted.
(d) Embarassed.

5. When does Dora come to visit Mildred?
(a) In the summer.
(b) Over the Easter holiday.
(c) Victoria Day.
(d) Just after Valentine's Day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within how many years did Mildred's parents die of one another?

2. What is Winifred doing when Mildred arrives for a visit?

3. How does Mildred sometimes find the person whom she goes on the annual lunch date with?

4. Where do the group go after the speech at the Learned Society?

5. After Mildred tells the pastor and his sister about Helena, what do they tell her about?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Helena react when Everard comments that he will be going away, and what does she do later to contradict this reaction?

2. Why does Mildred visit the Malory house in Chapter 7, and what does she do while there?

3. Who does Mildred go on her annual lunch date with, and what do they talk about?

4. What do Mildred and Dora learn from a Wren officer on the way home from a school reunion?

5. What does Mildred see at Piccadilly?

6. Describe Mildred Lathbury.

7. Where do Helena, Mildred, Rocky and Everard go together?

8. What does Mildred tell the reader about her childhood?

9. How does Helena feel about her husband's return and why does she feel this way?

10. Where does Rocky go with Mildred and Dora and how does Mildred find this encounter?

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