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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 the narrator doing as she recalls these events from her past, as a student at Hailsham?
(a) Preparing a funeral.
(b) Visiting a donor.
(c) Talking to a friend.
(d) Driving.

2. What work of art did Tommy create as a joke that began his torment from other students, as described in chapter 2?
(a) A palace.
(b) An elephant.
(c) A lion.
(d) A cathedral.

3. What things in Tommy's behavior does the narrator believe she missed as signs of something that has taken place in chapter 8?
(a) He begins fighting with the other boys.
(b) He begins dating many other girls.
(c) He breaks off their friendship.
(d) He becomes distracted and angry again.

4. What was the secret guards evidence against the conspirators?
(a) Pictures of strangers.
(b) Written confessions.
(c) Witnessed conversations.
(d) Drawings of crime scenes.

5. Who decides to comfort Tommy at the end of chapter 1 during his temper tantrum?
(a) Jenny.
(b) Laura.
(c) Kathy.
(d) Ruth.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of chapter 4, what does Ruth accuse the narrator of doing all wrong?

2. What is Bramble, as described in chapter 4?

3. Where did the donor in the narrator's third year grow up, causing her to recall her own childhood at Hailsham?

4. Where at Hailsham, as the narrator describes in chapter 2, was the best place to have a private talk?

5. Who does the narrator continuously refer to as the veterans in chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the students normally given for artwork 'sold' at Hailsham? Are they given these by Madame?

2. What change in attitude does Kathy remember noticing in Tommy during their days at Hailsham?

3. Upon first meeting Ruth, as described in chapter 4, what do Ruth and Kathy do together?

4. In chapter 10, what does Ruth accuse Kathy of being jealous of?

5. In chapter 6, how does Kathy keep another girl from learning the truth about Ruth's pencil case?

6. As the students at Hailsham grow older, what becomes the main subjects of discussion?

7. Where do Tommy, Ruth, and Kathy go after leaving Hailsham when they are sixteen?

8. What often causes Tommy, as a child, to have a fit of temper?

9. What does Kathy do for a living? What privileges has she been given as a result of being good at her job?

10. In chapter 8, what does Kathy see Miss Lucy doing that makes her think the woman is sinister?

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