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

2. Who is the author of Miss Benson's Beetle?
(a) Rachel Joyce.
(b) Joyce Richards.
(c) Rachel Carson.
(d) James Joyce.

3. What word does Margery use to try to describe her face on her passport application?
(a) Buxom.
(b) Intelligent.
(c) Fierce.
(d) Confusing.

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

5. Who has Enid gone off with in Brisbane?
(a) The ship's captain.
(b) Miss Hamilton.
(c) Taylor.
(d) Mundic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Enid use to describe her need to be a mother and Margery's need to find the golden beetle?

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

3. What do the police find in Enid's apartment five weeks after she left with Margery?

4. What does Enid buy in Aden, which Mundic finds suspicious in Chapter 11?

5. Why do the boiler men who find Mundic decide not to turn him in and help him stay on the ship instead?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How are Enid and Margery's experiences different during their first weeks on the ship?

6. What news does Margery's father receive after showing her the golden beetle and what does he do in response?

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

8. How does Taylor react to seeing Margery in their hut when she goes there to find Enid in Chapter 14?

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

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

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