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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. What did men roll across the city?
(a) Bicycles.
(b) Logs.
(c) Food carts.
(d) Ice.

2. How much cooler was it at the tea estate than it was in Colombo?
(a) 30 degrees.
(b) 20 degrees.
(c) 25 degrees.
(d) 15 degrees.

3. How old was Michael when he left Ceylon?
(a) 9.
(b) 13.
(c) 7.
(d) 11.

4. How far apart were the resthouses in Ceylon?
(a) 20 miles.
(b) 15 miles.
(c) 10 miles.
(d) 25 miles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Natalia Asarrapa die?

2. How much of a dowry did the woman have that Lalla tried to get her brother to marry?

3. When did a Dutch governor's daughter throw herself down a well?

4. What color were the walls in the old governor's home in Jaffna?

5. How much did Michael's Aunt Dolly weigh?

(see the answer key)

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