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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gordon teach?
(a) Biology.
(b) History.
(c) English literature.
(d) Economics.

2. Why did Claudia also want to be tutored like her brother, as mentioned in Chapter 2?
(a) The class was free.
(b) The tutor was cute.
(c) She wanted the same opportunity.
(d) She was bored.

3. At which American university does Gordon teach?
(a) Southern California.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Princeton.

4. Which word does not describe Claudia?
(a) Generous.
(b) Intelligent.
(c) Self-absorbed.
(d) Cantankerous.

5. How does Claudia feel about her son-in-law?
(a) She thinks he's lazy.
(b) She's happy that he married her daughter.
(c) She loves him.
(d) She hates him.

6. According to Claudia, all history is a history of...
(a) People.
(b) Foods.
(c) Wars.
(d) Culture.

7. What illness does Claudia contract in the desert?
(a) Dehydration.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Typhoid.
(d) Flu.

8. Who creates a secret ritual to make Claudia disappear?
(a) A witch.
(b) Sylvia.
(c) Gordon.
(d) Lisa.

9. Why does Tom say he stopped reading history?
(a) There are no libraries on the battlefield.
(b) Because he has no time, with the war and all.
(c) Because it's different when you are one of the statistics.
(d) He tired of it.

10. Which country will play a large role in the history of the world that Claudia is writing?
(a) America.
(b) Canada.
(c) England.
(d) Egypt.

11. How does Claudia recall being taught history in school?
(a) By reading many books.
(b) By copying sentences off the board.
(c) By researching on her own.
(d) By hearing it from storytelling.

12. Who was not invited to Lisa's baptism?
(a) Her grandmothers.
(b) Jasper.
(c) Gordon.
(d) Claudia.

13. Whom does the reader learn about in Chapter 2 that had a dog that did a special trick?
(a) Sylvia.
(b) Claudia.
(c) Claudia's mother.
(d) Lisa's mother.

14. Why did the person discussed in Chapter 2 stab at Claudia's crotch?
(a) Just to be mean.
(b) To hurt her.
(c) It was an accident.
(d) He was explaining where babies come from.

15. What is the image of war that the press has presented?
(a) Exhaustion, exhilaration, bordom, and discomfort.
(b) Cool.
(c) Popular and necessary.
(d) Idyllic and heroic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event follows Lisa's baptism?

2. What does Claudia wear to her daughter's wedding?

3. How many soldiers were discovered wounded at the armored car wreckage?

4. What is Claudia's one memory of her father?

5. Who says that refusing to believe in destiny is mere self-indulgence?

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