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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Mr. Pettigrew at the beginning of the book?

2. What is the Major's brother's name?

3. What is the name of Mr. Pettigrew's oldest son?

4. What does Mrs. Ali wear in her garden?

5. Who told Major Pettigrew about his brother's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Major Pettigrew feel about the wives of the golf club?

2. What is Major Pettigrew thinking about while he is in his garden with Mrs. Ali?

3. How does Major Pettigrew prepare for his tea with Mrs. Ali?

4. What is the pretense for Major Pettigrew's tea with Mrs. Ali?

5. What does Jemima want to do with her father's guns?

6. How does Mrs. Khan treat Mrs. Ali, and why?

7. What makes Roger stick out in the crowd at the funeral proceedings?

8. What does Major Pettigrew about after the funeral, and why?

9. Who is Jemima, and what does Major Pettigrew think of her?

10. What does Major Pettigrew love about the walk into town?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which person did you relate with the most in this book? Why is this? How did this person change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the major obstacles in the relationship between Jasmina and the Major, and how are they overcome?

Essay Topic 3

Friendship is something that was very important to Pettigrew in his life. Where are some places that friendship appears, and how do the people touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

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