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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. Who administers first aid to a soldier found wounded at the armored car wreckage?
(a) Claudia.
(b) Camille.
(c) The general.
(d) Tom.

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

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

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

5. As a war correspondent, whom does Claudia travel with?
(a) Journalists from the U.S. and New Zealand.
(b) German soldiers.
(c) Her father.
(d) Russian troops.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who disapproves of organized religion, especially the Church of England?

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

5. How does Claudia tell Tom what she does for a living?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the illness Claudia contracts in Chapter 7, and how is it transmitted?

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

5. Describe Lisa's adult family life.

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

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

8. What is ironic about Lisa not telling her mother about her affair?

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

10. What is Claudia's view of religion?

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