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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. What is Amina doing for the golf club dance?

2. How does Pettigrew feel about picking up Sandy for the dance?

3. Why does Grace refuse to marry Pettigrew?

4. What does Pettigrew regret when Mrs. Ali leaves the dance?

5. What does Sandy do to win approval in Pettigrew's eyes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Grace respond to Pettigrew's proposal and why?

2. Why does Roger want to pursue Gertrude?

3. How does Pettigrew feel when he picks Mrs. Ali up for the dance?

4. What is Pettigrew asked to do about Lord Dagenham's land?

5. What saves Christmas for Major Pettigrew?

6. Why does Pettigrew take the protestors on Ferguson's land seriously?

7. What does Mr. Rasool do at the dance?

8. How does Roger try to get Abdul out of his father's house?

9. What does Pettigrew realize when Roger and Sandy break up?

10. What does Ferguson tell Pettigrew to do after the dance?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the ways the Major and Nancy showed their love to each other, and how did these displays alter the course of their lives?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Amina was a person who was seen very little in this book, but whose presence made a big difference in Pettigrew's life. How did she accomplish this? What are some ways that her presence- however brief, altered Pettigrew's life? What would have happened differently if she had not been in the book at all?

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