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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom does Claudia meet when her Jeep breaks down?
(a) Gen. George Patton.
(b) The president of the United States.
(c) Capt. Tom Southern.
(d) Hitler.

3. When did Claudia show the most interest in her daughter?
(a) When she began dance classes.
(b) When she started school.
(c) When she was learning to talk.
(d) When she began to walk.

4. Whom does Claudia believe should have been killed in the war?
(a) Gordon.
(b) Jasper's father.
(c) All men who signed up to go.
(d) Tom.

5. Whom does Sylvia visit in Chapter 3?
(a) Sylvia and Gordon.
(b) Jasper.
(c) Lisa and Jasper.
(d) Tom.

6. Why was Claudia chided after help was requested for the wounded at the armored car wreckage?
(a) For relieving herself.
(b) For drinking too much water.
(c) For not going before they left.
(d) For wandering away.

7. Who organizes Lisa's baptism?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her grandmothers.
(c) Claudia.
(d) Her father.

8. How many times in her life has Claudia prayed?
(a) Countless.
(b) Two.
(c) 10.
(d) 1001.

9. What is the ring with a tiny compartment called?
(a) A market ring.
(b) A poison ring.
(c) A trap ring.
(d) A magician's ring.

10. What does the back seat passenger contemplate on the way back from the airport in Chapter 3?
(a) Whether Claudia will ever agree to marry him.
(b) Whether Gordon's affairs are all in the past.
(c) Why he believes in destiny.
(d) Why her mother never married her father.

11. What does Claudia tell the nurse she is writing in Chapter 1?
(a) A biography of a war captain.
(b) A love story.
(c) A history of the world.
(d) An autobiography.

12. What three countries does Tom tell Claudia he has visited?
(a) America, Italy and Greece.
(b) America, Mexico and Cairo.
(c) America, Spain and France.
(d) America, New Zealand, and Australia.

13. Who cannot speak at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Jasper.
(b) Claudia.
(c) Harry.
(d) Lisa.

14. Who says that refusing to believe in destiny is mere self-indulgence?
(a) Claudia.
(b) Sylvia.
(c) Lisa.
(d) Gordon.

15. Who sits in the back seat on the way back from the airport in Chapter 3?
(a) Jasper.
(b) Sylvia.
(c) Gordon.
(d) Lisa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the image of war that the press has presented?

2. What does Lisa admire about her mother?

3. Who is Claudia's date for the Chapter 2 celebration?

4. Who lives with Harry?

5. What is the name of the man with whom Lisa is having an affair?

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