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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. Whom does the reader learn about in Chapter 2 that had a dog that did a special trick?
(a) Lisa's mother.
(b) Claudia's mother.
(c) Claudia.
(d) Sylvia.

2. According to Chapter 2, which woman does Claudia admire most?
(a) Lisa.
(b) Herself.
(c) Sylvia.
(d) Her mother.

3. Why doesn't Lisa tell her mother about her affair?
(a) Her mother might tell her husband.
(b) Her mother would approve.
(c) Her mother would tell everyone.
(d) Her mother would disapprove.

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

5. Who does not visit Claudia during her hospital stay in Chapter 1?
(a) Lazlo.
(b) Gordon.
(c) Lisa.
(d) Sylvia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who organizes Lisa's baptism?

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

3. Who wrote a book about Tito?

4. Who sits by Claudia on a guided tour of the pyramids that she takes later in life?

5. What does Claudia recall to be her grade on her final history exam in school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tom put inside the ring he gives Claudia in Chapter 8?

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

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

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

5. What is part of Jasper's attraction to Claudia?

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

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

8. What is the first gift given to Claudia by Tom, and what does she do with it?

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

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

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