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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Mundic tell Margery about himself when she first meets him?
(a) He had been a POW in Burma.
(b) He is an entomologist.
(c) He is an excellent driver.
(d) He was a former schoolteacher.

2. What is the second problem Margery encounters when they arrive in Noumea in Chapter 18?
(a) She lost her wallet.
(b) Enid cannot speak French.
(c) Enid lost her red valise.
(d) Mundic has found them.

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

4. Who is getting closer to New Caledonia at the start of Chapter 24?
(a) The British Police.
(b) Miss Hamilton.
(c) Mundic.
(d) Mrs. Pope.

5. What word does Enid use to describe her need to be a mother and Margery's need to find the golden beetle?
(a) Destiny.
(b) Fate.
(c) Calling.
(d) Vocation.

6. What article of clothing does Margery pack for special occasions?
(a) Her best purple frock.
(b) High heels.
(c) A ballgown.
(d) Red lipstick.

7. Where does Margery decide she will go while she is on the bus after leaving her job?
(a) New Caledonia.
(b) Paris.
(c) Rome.
(d) California.

8. What does Mundic do on the boat when Margery falls down the stairs?
(a) He walks over her.
(b) He gets Enid.
(c) He tells her he followed her.
(d) He brings her to a nurse.

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

10. How long had Margery worked at the school at the time she walked out?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 10 years.

11. What is Margery's father's name?
(a) Robert Benson.
(b) Richard Benson.
(c) Timothy.
(d) Tobias Benson.

12. What is Enid's real name?
(a) Nadia Coleman.
(b) Nancy Collett.
(c) Nicole Colter.
(d) Noelle Colbert.

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

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

15. Why is Margery unable to provide an old photo of herself to the passport office?
(a) She had cut her face out of all of her photos.
(b) She threw all her old pictures away.
(c) She never let anyone take her picture.
(d) She never knew anyone with a camera.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enid tell everyone on the boat about Margery?

2. How does Enid say her parents had died when she was young?

3. What is the name of the bungalow Enid and Margery stay at in Chapter 25?

4. What does Enid tell Margery when she returns after her fall down the stairs in Chapter 12?

5. What do Enid's neighbors do five weeks after she left Britain?

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