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

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

3. What do the hippos in the zoo eat?
(a) Slop.
(b) Pizza.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Grain.

4. What is Claudia's favorite memory about the flower she receives from Sylvia in the hospital?
(a) Seeing it bloom in the hills of Holland.
(b) It was part of her wedding bouquet.
(c) It was part of the funeral flowers when her father died.
(d) Seeing it bloom in the desert with Tom.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Lisa when she got married?

2. What bothers Claudia about Sylvia in Chapter 3?

3. What was unusual about Claudia's position in the war?

4. Why did the person discussed in Chapter 2 stab at Claudia's crotch?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Which country will play a central role in Claudia's history of the world and why?

2. How does Sylvia feel about living in the U.S. for six months out of the year?

3. Discuss Claudia's popularity as a historical author. What makes her writing accounts different from all the others?

4. As Claudia reflects, what does she recall about her argument with Jasper following Lisa's wedding?

5. Describe Lisa. How is she like her mother?

6. What does Claudia believe is the biggest influence of her daughter's life?

7. In Chapter 2, what stab at Jasper's character does Gordon take and why is it ironic?

8. How competitive is Claudia against her brother, and what memory first shows this competitiveness to the reader?

9. What is Claudia's opinion about Sylvia?

10. What is Tom's view of the war, as the reader learns in Chapter 8?

(see the answer keys)

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