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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 did Kathy see Miss Lucy doing in a quiet classroom at the beginning of chapter 8?
(a) Blacking out lines on unknown papers.
(b) Creating a new type of art.
(c) Scribbling over students' homework.
(d) Encouraging Tommy to create more art.

2. Where did the donor in the narrator's third year grow up, causing her to recall her own childhood at Hailsham?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) Norfolk.
(c) Dorset.
(d) Dover.

3. How old was the narrator when she first recalls making friends with Ruth?
(a) Six going on seven.
(b) Seven going on eight.
(c) Five.
(d) Nine.

4. What trip does the narrator foreshadow at the end of chapter 11?
(a) A trip to Hailsham.
(b) A trip to Norfolk.
(c) A trip to Dover.
(d) A trip to London.

5. What vice is strongly discouraged at Hailsham?
(a) Overeating.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Premarital sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom has Tommy recently had a break up as described in chapter 8?

2. Who decides to comfort Tommy at the end of chapter 1 during his temper tantrum?

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

4. Why did the narrator believe Ruth to be a good chess player?

5. What does Miss Lucy tell the students in chapter 7 they are destined to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Ruth tell everyone she got a pencil case she shows off in chapter 5? Where does Kathy suspect she really got the case?

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

3. How does Miss Lucy react when she overhears the students at Hailsham discussing their futures in chapter 7?

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

5. How does Kathy think Madame feels about the students at Hailsham? What does she do about it?

6. What is one of the responsibilities of the caretaker at the Cottages, as Kathy describes in chapter 11?

7. What is stolen from Kathy's room in chapter 6?

8. What was an important aspect of education at Hailsham?

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

10. What does Kathy notice about the behavior of the older residents at the Cottages?

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