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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Prodigal.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Francis de Saram work?
(a) A bank.
(b) Rubber estate.
(c) Government offices.
(d) Tea plantation.

2. What poets did Doris enjoy?
(a) Cather and Joyce.
(b) Tennyson and Yeats.
(c) Arnold and Aiken.
(d) Browning and Crane.

3. How old was the English officer who was ordered to build a road from Colombo to Kandy when the road was finished?
(a) 41.
(b) 36.
(c) 33.
(d) 38.

4. How old was the fort, where the old governor's home was located?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 250 years.
(c) 150 years.
(d) 200 years.

5. During the war, where did Lalla open up a boarding house?
(a) Kegalle.
(b) Colombo.
(c) Kandy.
(d) Nuwara Eliya.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many bombs did Mervyn find on a train he hijacked?

2. As he awaited his approaching marriage, how long after Mervyn had returned to Ceylon did he announce another engagement?

3. In the introduction to Chapter 1, how long had there been a drought?

4. How far was it from Galle to Colombo?

5. What color were the walls in the old governor's home when the Dutch first built the house?

(see the answer key)

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