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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, What We Think of Married Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many ways were there to describe the smell of a durian fruit?
(a) 15.
(b) 8.
(c) 18.
(d) 4.

2. What type of car did Mervyn and Doris ride in with their friends to the place where they were to be married?
(a) Fiat.
(b) Audi.
(c) VW.
(d) Saab.

3. Why was Doris put in Spittel's Nursing Home?
(a) She had malaria.
(b) She had bronchitis.
(c) She had pneumonia.
(d) She had para-typhoid.

4. In Michael's dream that caused him to return to Ceylon, what would he see his father surrounded by?
(a) Men with guns.
(b) Friends drinking.
(c) Crocodiles.
(d) Dogs.

5. What year did Natalia Asarrapa die?
(a) 1824.
(b) 1822.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1836.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Mervyn's parents discover he had not passed the entrance exams for the university?

2. During what month would Doris and Lalla spend their time at the races?

3. What noise would awaken Michael at 3 a.m. when he was in the jungle?

4. Where did Lalla claim she was born?

5. When was the poem "Women Like You" written?

(see the answer key)

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