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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10: Chapters 47 - 54 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the police find in Enid's apartment five weeks after she left with Margery?
(a) Her sister's dead body.
(b) Twenty cats.
(c) Her abandoned children.
(d) Her husband's dead body.

2. How does the Professor react when Margery had confessed her love for him?
(a) He says they should run away together.
(b) He tells her she is a fool.
(c) He cries and apologizes to her.
(d) He tells her he loves her too.

3. What is the name of the book Margery's father shows her at the start of Miss Benson's Beetle?
(a) The Darwin Awards.
(b) Insects of the World.
(c) National Geographic Animal Encyclopedia.
(d) Incredible Creatures.

4. What item does Enid keep close to her at all times during her and Margery's trip?
(a) Her passport.
(b) Her wedding ring.
(c) A red valise.
(d) Her pink purse.

5. On what condition does Enid say she will join Margery in Poum at the start of Chapter 37?
(a) Margery must wear Enid's pink outfit.
(b) Margery must pay for everything.
(c) Margery must have some cocktails.
(d) Margery must bleach her hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of beetle do Margery and Enid find many specimens of during the first weeks at the mountain?

2. What does Enid tell Margery that Gloria will not be happy to learn when she grows up in Chapter 48?

3. What strange question does Enid ask Margery after Enid has given birth and begun to appear very ill?

4. What are Nancy Collet and her husband "surrounded by" (193) in the photo of them in The Sunday Mail?

5. Why are Margery and Enid unable to begin their expedition for three days at the start of Chapter 27?

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