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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Enid do after Margery's lost luggage is not found in Chapter 19?
(a) She tells Margery they should go home.
(b) She goes directly to the airline and threatens them.
(c) She leaves and finds all the equipment Margery needs.
(d) She purchases Margery all new equipment.

2. What do Enid's letters to Margery always include?
(a) Lipstick marks.
(b) Parts of a grocery shopping list.
(c) Silly drawings.
(d) Her weekly budget.

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

4. Why is Mundic glad to know Enid left Margery when they arrived in Brisbane?
(a) He could be her assistant now.
(b) He hated Enid.
(c) He did not like Taylor.
(d) He wanted Margery to be abandoned.

5. Why do the boiler men who find Mundic decide not to turn him in and help him stay on the ship instead?
(a) They get him to do their work for them.
(b) He is a POW and they feel bad.
(c) He threatened them.
(d) He bribes them.

6. What British news do the ladies at the garden party ask Margery about in Chapter 21?
(a) Norman Skinner.
(b) The Festival of Britain.
(c) Nancy Collet.
(d) The Royal family.

7. What does Enid tell Margery when they find their bungalow broken and filled with trash in Chapter 25?
(a) She loves it.
(b) She has seen worse in the war.
(c) She will sleep in the jeep.
(d) She cannot stay there.

8. What does Enid tell Margery that Taylor has so she must return to him at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) Her passport.
(b) Her red valise.
(c) Her wallet.
(d) A gun.

9. What does Enid do when Margery hurts her hip trying to get away from her at the train station?
(a) She gets a porter to help with their luggage.
(b) She walks away silently.
(c) She kicks her.
(d) She tells her she deserves it.

10. What does Margery tell Enid Pretty to avoid packing when she writes her a letter offering her the job?
(a) Binoculars.
(b) Brightly colored clothing.
(c) High heels.
(d) Weapons.

11. Who does Margery think of when she boards the flying boat at the start of Chapter 17?
(a) Aunt Hazel.
(b) Her father.
(c) Professor Smith.
(d) Her brothers.

12. In whose letters does Margery think she has found proof the golden beetle exists?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Henry David Thoreau.
(d) Thomas Edison.

13. Where do Enid and Margery sleep on their first night in Poum in Chapter 23?
(a) Outside the cafe in a tent.
(b) The bungalow.
(c) A motel.
(d) Their jeep.

14. What does Mundic do the day Margery leaves for her trip with Enid?
(a) Goes to the school where she worked.
(b) Shoots himself.
(c) Breaks into her house.
(d) Takes the same train to Tilbury.

15. What does Mundic begin to do after his first meeting with Margery?
(a) Follow her.
(b) Send her flowers every week.
(c) Write her letters.
(d) Ignore her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enid come back to Margery with after leaving to buy watermelon in Chapter 23?

2. Who does Margery write to requesting funding for her expedition?

3. What is the second problem Margery encounters when they arrive in Noumea in Chapter 18?

4. Who is the only person Margery does not reply to after posting her ad in the newspaper?

5. Where does Mundic hide out on the ship after sneaking on in Chapter 9?

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