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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. What does Margery do in Chapter 12 when Enid knocks on their cabin door covered in blood?
(a) She helps her inside.
(b) She calls a doctor.
(c) She hugs her.
(d) She runs away.

2. What does Margery confess to Enid on the flying boat to New Caledonia in Chapter 17?
(a) She wants to fire Enid.
(b) She does not work for the Natural History Museum.
(c) She has no money.
(d) She does not think the golden beetle is real.

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

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

5. What does Enid tell everyone on the boat about Margery?
(a) She is a college teacher.
(b) She is from the Natural History Museum.
(c) She is a millionaire.
(d) She stole lacrosse boots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Enid's favorite things to talk about?

2. How long had Margery worked at the school at the time she walked out?

3. What does Enid tell Margery to do in Chapter 23 when Margery complains of how fast Enid drives?

4. What does Margery ask Enid to stop doing after the cop lets them go in Chapter 23?

5. How does Enid say she felt when she saw the women laugh at Margery at the garden party?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Enid work to improve the state of the bungalow in Chapter 25?

2. Why does Margery tell Enid that "the post is no longer available" (42) when she first meets her at Fenchurch Station in Chapter 7?

3. How does Margery feel when Miss Hamilton refuses the job as her assistant after finding out what happened at her school?

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

5. Chapter 22 describes how information on Nancy Collett was all over the British newspapers. What information do they have so far about Nancy and her accomplice?

6. 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?

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

8. How does Mundic manage to get a cabin on the ship Enid and Margery are on?

9. Why do Enid and Margery have to sleep in their jeep the first day they arrive in Poum?

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

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