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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 was a "Matilda?"
(a) A drink.
(b) A girl.
(c) A bomb.
(d) A local burger special.
2. Whom does Claudia believe should have been killed in the war?
(a) Tom.
(b) All men who signed up to go.
(c) Jasper's father.
(d) Gordon.
3. How does Claudia tell Tom what she does for a living?
(a) Proudly.
(b) Eagerly.
(c) Reluctantly.
(d) She doesn't.
4. Who picks up Claudia from the airport in Chapter 3?
(a) Gordon and Lisa.
(b) Gordon and Sylvia.
(c) Jasper and Lisa.
(d) Lisa and Sylvia.
5. Which country will play a large role in the history of the world that Claudia is writing?
(a) America.
(b) England.
(c) Canada.
(d) Egypt.
Short Answer Questions
1. At which American university does Gordon teach?
2. Who lives with Harry?
3. What is the name of the club where the celebration in Chapter 2 takes place?
4. What does the back seat passenger contemplate on the way back from the airport in Chapter 3?
5. Who organizes Lisa's baptism?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 8, how does Claudia juggle her work schedule when she spends time with Tom during his leave?
2. How competitive is Claudia against her brother, and what memory first shows this competitiveness to the reader?
3. What is the first gift given to Claudia by Tom, and what does she do with it?
4. What makes Sylvia uncomfortable about Gordon's relationship with Claudia and how does she handle it?
5. Discuss Claudia's popularity as a historical author. What makes her writing accounts different from all the others?
6. In Chapter 2, what stab at Jasper's character does Gordon take and why is it ironic?
7. Discuss Claudia's thoughts on infants and young children. When was she most interested in her own daughter?
8. What is ironic about the hippos Claudia and Tom see in the Cairo Zoo?
9. What is Tom's view of the war, as the reader learns in Chapter 8?
10. Discuss the argument between Claudia and Gordon at the end of Chapter 3.
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