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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 tells her she deserves it.
(d) She kicks her.

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

4. Who is the only person Margery does not reply to after posting her ad in the newspaper?
(a) Enid Pretty.
(b) Miss Hamilton.
(c) Mr. Mundic.
(d) Mr. Reynolds.

5. What does Margery do for the first few days on the boat?
(a) She talks nonstop.
(b) She reads.
(c) She eats.
(d) She vomits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Margery do for Enid in an attempt to care for her in Chapter 12?

2. Where are Margery and Enid invited to at the end of Chapter 19?

3. When Margery applied for her position, what did the ad specify?

4. What British news do the ladies at the garden party ask Margery about in Chapter 21?

5. What does Enid tell Margery to do when they are pulled over by a cop in Chapter 23?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Margery learn that Enid stole equipment from the Catholic school?

2. What does Mundic do to Margery after their first meeting?

3. Why does Margery laugh at Mr. Mundic during their interview for the assistant position?

4. Why was Enid's husband unable to go to war despite having gone to military training?

5. How does Mundic manage to board the ship Margery and Enid are on in Chapter 9?

6. How does Margery react when Enid comes to their cabin door covered in blood at the start of Chapter 12?

7. What does Margery think when she sees the golden beetle in her father's book Incredible Creatures, and what does she decide she will do after her father leaves the room?

8. What happens when Mundic arrives in Brisbane? How does he end up heading to New Caledonia?

9. How does Margery ultimately realize her brother's died in 1914?

10. What does Margery place an ad in the newspaper for the day after she walks out of her job in Chapter 2?

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