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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. According to Claudia, what's more important in history?
(a) The culture of a country.
(b) The landscape of a country.
(c) The number of lives lost and affected by war.
(d) The names of battles.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lives with Harry?

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

3. In what town does Harry live?

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

5. How does Claudia recall being taught history in school?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, how does Claudia juggle her work schedule when she spends time with Tom during his leave?

2. Describe Lisa's adult family life.

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

4. Discuss Claudia's thoughts on infants and young children. When was she most interested in her own daughter?

5. Discuss the argument between Claudia and Gordon at the end of Chapter 3.

6. Discuss Claudia's relationship with her roommate in Chapter 7.

7. Discuss the language soldiers used to describe war events. Why did they choose this language?

8. What is Claudia's view of religion?

9. What makes Sylvia uncomfortable about Gordon's relationship with Claudia and how does she handle it?

10. What is ironic about the hippos Claudia and Tom see in the Cairo Zoo?

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