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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What resulted from God not striking Claudia's brother dead?
(a) She hit him.
(b) She became agnostic.
(c) She forgot all about it.
(d) She did it herself.

2. In what city does 31-year-old Claudia make her prayer?
(a) Cairo.
(b) Paris.
(c) New York.
(d) London.

3. Who says the flower Claudia receives in the hospital is delicate?
(a) The nurse.
(b) Sylvia.
(c) The doctor.
(d) Claudia.

4. Who delivers Claudia's story about the desert to the censor's office?
(a) Gordon.
(b) Camille.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Tom.

5. What does Claudia recall to be her grade on her final history exam in school?
(a) 38 percent.
(b) 13 percent.
(c) 99 percent.
(d) 100 percent plus 25 points extra credit.

6. Where does Claudia recall having drinks with Tom during his leave?
(a) Cairo Palace.
(b) Caesar's Palace.
(c) Summer Season.
(d) Winter Palace.

7. What does Lisa admire about her mother?
(a) Her coyness.
(b) Her fingernails.
(c) Her business sense.
(d) Her sense of humor.

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

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

10. What does the reader learn in Chapter 1 that Claudia and her brother collected on the beach as children?
(a) Shells.
(b) Fossils.
(c) Hermit crabs.
(d) Sand dollars.

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

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

13. What is the name of the club where the celebration in Chapter 2 takes place?
(a) The Pub.
(b) The Place.
(c) The Gargoyle.
(d) The Cyclops.

14. What is Claudia's one memory of her father?
(a) A special Christmas gift he gave her.
(b) Him holding her in his arms.
(c) Sitting on the beach with him.
(d) Him lifting her on his shoulders.

15. What is Claudia told that the war really is?
(a) Cool.
(b) Popular and necessary.
(c) Idyllic and heroic.
(d) Exhaustion, exhilaration, bordom, and discomfort.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what was the command for the special trick the dog would do?

2. What is Claudia's favorite memory about the flower she receives from Sylvia in the hospital?

3. What, according to this book, do most "typical" moms do?

4. In Claudia's view, what is "history?"

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

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