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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 is missing from Tom's postwar plans as he explains his desires to Claudia?
(a) How he will get what he wants.
(b) How he will start saving for what he wants.
(c) Financial goals.
(d) A marriage proposal.

2. In Chapter 16, what does the reader learn that Claudia publish just a few weeks prior to her birthday?
(a) An autobiography.
(b) A retrospective essay on the war in Egypt.
(c) A children's novel about war.
(d) A love letter to Tom.

3. What does Claudia apologize for in Chapter 15?
(a) For keeping secrets.
(b) For things she said about Gordon.
(c) Encouraging their sexual relationship.
(d) Being an inadequate mother.

4. Where do Claudia and Gordon dance together when they are young?
(a) Around the kitchen.
(b) In the den.
(c) In the old nursery.
(d) In their club house.

5. As Claudia recollects, why does Jasper decide to leave his job at the Foreign Office?
(a) He's not advancing as quickly as he'd like.
(b) He went to work for his family's business.
(c) He found a better job in Russia.
(d) He wants to marry her and move to the countryside.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the stranger's birthday gift to Claudia in Chapter 16?

2. What were Tom and Claudia exploring as he stole kisses in dark corners?

3. What one aspect of Tom's postwar plans makes Claudia hesitate?

4. What does the nurse tell Claudia when her miscarriage begins?

5. Where is the first place that Claudia and Gordon caress each other?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Claudia, what does the destruction of Memphis reveal about history?

2. Why does Claudia accept the offer of a film producer to buy the rights to her book?

3. Where are Tom and Claudia when he confesses that he wants to marry her?

4. Discuss the accident that severely injures Claudia.

5. What fascinates Claudia about Memphis?

6. What is ironic about Mrs. Hamilton allowing Claudia to go to Paris with Gordon?

7. Whom does Claudia use for her standard of measurement when judging men and why?

8. How does Claudia's apology in Chapter 15 make Lisa feel?

9. How does Claudia describe Cortez? How popular was her book about him?

10. When Tom tells Claudia in Chapter 8 that he has never been more happy in his life, upon what thought does Claudia silently reflect?

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