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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 suggests in chapter 18 that the narrator become Ruth's carer?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Laura.
(c) Tommy.
(d) Kathy.

2. In chapter 15, what do Kathy and Tommy talk about?
(a) Hailsham's students.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Sneaking away from the Cottages.
(d) The deferrment.

3. At the end of chapter 15, how does Ruth go out of her way to show Tommy and Kathy she had known she had acted badly earlier?
(a) She includes them in her jokes with Chrissie and Rodney.
(b) She refuses to speak with Chrissie and Rodney.
(c) She apologizes outright.
(d) She buys them dinner.

4. What billboard does the narrator point out in chapter 19 that she hopes will remind Tommy and Ruth of their trip to Norfolk?
(a) A picture of a beach resort.
(b) A picture of a hotel.
(c) A picture of a set of cottages.
(d) A picture of an office setting.

5. In chapter 16, how does the narrator make her intention to become a carer immediately known?
(a) She tells Keffers.
(b) She asks the guardians if she can start early.
(c) She tells Ruth.
(d) She asks Rodney for help.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say Ruth responded to the possibility of not taking the trip to Norfolk in chapter 13?

2. What does the narrator notice about Madame's door in chapter 21 as they enter her house?

3. What does Ruby ask the narrator forgiveness for in chapter 19?

4. In chapter 21, what picture does Tommy notice on Madame's wall?

5. What lie has Ruth told Chrissie that Tommy nearly blows for her in chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ruth react to the sight of her possible? How does she, and the others, come to believe this woman could not be her possible?

2. In chapter 21, what does Tommy tell Madame he has come to her to ask for?

3. What does Kathy decide not to tell Ruth at the end of chapter 15?

4. In chapter 16, what does Kathy tell the reader she had thought she and Tommy might do after the trip to Norfolk, but never did?

5. In chapter 12, Rodney and Chrissie report seeing what person in Norfolk during a trip there?

6. In chapter 18, how does Kathy become Ruth's carer? How does Ruth react to this?

7. In chapter 12, why do Rodney and Chrissie invite Ruth to go on a trip to Norfolk with them? Who else will be going?

8. In chapter 15, who does Rodney and Chrissie want to visit that Kathy refuses to see? For what reason?

9. In chapter 18, how does Kathy learn that Ruth has begun her donations?

10. In chapter 13, what excuse does Ruth give to Rodney and Chrissie for Tommy's refusal to agree that there is a deferment program for lovers?

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