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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did Doris work after her divorce from Mervyn?
(a) Galadari Hotel.
(b) Palm Village Hotel.
(c) Ceylon Continental.
(d) Grand Oriental Hotel.

4. How many bombs did Mervyn find on a train he hijacked?
(a) 10.
(b) 25.
(c) 15.
(d) 30.

5. How much did Michael's Aunt Dolly weigh?
(a) 105 pounds.
(b) 70 pounds.
(c) 100 pounds.
(d) 95 pounds.

6. According to Aunt Dolly, where would wives meet their beaus?
(a) Cinnamon Gardens.
(b) Royal Palace Park.
(c) Spice Gardens.
(d) Gordon Gardens.

7. 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) 38.
(c) 33.
(d) 36.

8. As a teen, what song did Michael dance disgracefully to with girls?
(a) Harbour Lights.
(b) Sea of Heartbreak.
(c) Sloop John B.
(d) The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

9. During the rainy season, how many hours a day would it rain at the tea estate?
(a) 14.
(b) 20.
(c) 16.
(d) 18.

10. What was the name of the officer in the Ceylon Light Infantry that Mervyn terrified when he was in his twenties?
(a) David Arasakulasuriya.
(b) Peter Mihindukulasuriya.
(c) Thomas Kurukulasuriya.
(d) John Kotelawala.

11. What would wake Michael and his siblings on the last estate where they lived as children?
(a) A drum.
(b) A bell.
(c) A trumpet.
(d) A gong.

12. Where did Doris hold her breath and faint so that Mervyn would have to stop drinking?
(a) Tissamaharama resthouse.
(b) Ambepussa resthouse.
(c) Kitulgala resthouse.
(d) Dambulla resthouse.

13. In the middle of the 19th century, how old was the English officer who was ordered to organize the building of a road from Colombo to Kandy?
(a) 20.
(b) 17.
(c) 19.
(d) 18.

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

15. At the beginning of the section "The Passions of Lalla," where did Michael say his grandmother died?
(a) In an automobile accident.
(b) In her bed.
(c) On a boat.
(d) At a jacaranda tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lalla claim she was born?

2. How far was the car from the house when it stalled?

3. Where was the first place that Doris lived when she moved to England?

4. What type of vehicle did Mervyn drive when he nearly killed the three older children and himself?

5. How long did Michael say it would take for the tea estate to turn to jungle if it was left alone?

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