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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What commission did Uncle Ned oversee while he was in Jaffna?
(a) Transportation.
(b) Human rights.
(c) Food distribution.
(d) Race-riots.

2. How long after dawn would the garden be a blaze of heat, frantic with noise and butterflies?
(a) 15 minutes.
(b) 10 minutes.
(c) 5 minutes.
(d) 20 minutes.

3. At what university did Mervyn Ondaatje take entrance exams?
(a) Northumbria.
(b) Exeter.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Oxford.

4. When did Philip Ondaatje die?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1939.

5. In the introduction to Chapter 1, how long had there been a drought?
(a) Since April.
(b) Since March.
(c) Since November.
(d) Since December.

6. When was Mervyn sent to England to go to college?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1920s.

7. In a dream Michael had on page 27, what shape was his body?
(a) Polygon.
(b) Star.
(c) Square.
(d) Rectangle.

8. How tall were the doorways of the old governor's home?
(a) 6 ft.
(b) 14. ft.
(c) 7 ft.
(d) 20 ft.

9. During what month would Doris and Lalla spend their time at the races?
(a) March.
(b) November.
(c) August.
(d) January.

10. When did Francis de Saram die?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1926.

11. Where did a book Ian Goonetileke put together on the insurgency have to be published?
(a) Australia.
(b) America.
(c) England.
(d) Switzerland.

12. What color was the uniform insurgents wore?
(a) Blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Brown.

13. How often would Philip Ondaatje travel to England?
(a) Once a year.
(b) Every other year.
(c) Every two years.
(d) Every three years.

14. On page 24, what time was it when Michael sat in the old governor's home in Jaffna?
(a) 4:00 p.m.
(b) 1:15 p.m.
(c) 3:00 p.m.
(d) 2:15 p.m.

15. How long did it take Mervyn's parents and sister to get to England by ship?
(a) 18 days.
(b) 5 weeks.
(c) 24 days.
(d) 3 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of birds did Michael hear and see on a tree outside the old governor's house?

3. How many sentries guarded the entrance to the old governor's home?

4. How long after Michael awoke from a dream in a house near Lake Ontario, did he have a farewell party for his trip to Ceylon?

5. In the poem "Sweet Like a Crow," stepping on what bird was compared to the sound of someone's voice?

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