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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year was the car that was in Aunt Dolly's garden?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1925.

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

3. What was the name of the last estate that Michael and his siblings lived on as children?
(a) Dambulla.
(b) Polonnaruwa.
(c) Kuttapitiya.
(d) Matara.

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

5. Where did Doris and Mervyn go in Nuwara Eliya to try to repair their marriage?
(a) Grand Hotel.
(b) Cranleigh.
(c) Ferncliff.
(d) Oliphant.

6. What was Mervyn's favorite resthouse?
(a) Kitulgala.
(b) Kegalle.
(c) Avissawella.
(d) Kandy.

7. How old was Lalla when she received a small inheritance?
(a) 43.
(b) 68.
(c) 56.
(d) 39.

8. When did Michael's Aunt Dolly begin smoking?
(a) 20 years old.
(b) 18 years old.
(c) 25 years old.
(d) 15 years old.

9. What did Willie first attempt to raise when he lived at Palm Lodge?
(a) Cows.
(b) Goats.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Chickens.

10. Where did Lalla claim she was born?
(a) On the beach.
(b) During a picnic.
(c) During a dinner party.
(d) During a storm.

11. When Michael went back to Ceylon and the tea estate, how many years had it been since his mother had been to the tea estate?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 35 years.
(d) 40 years.

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

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

14. What was the name of the school nurse who was in charge of Michael and the other boys his age?
(a) Shani.
(b) Tania.
(c) Maratina.
(d) Ishara.

15. What was the name of the dog that the Ondaatjes had on the tea estate?
(a) Bandit.
(b) Spot.
(c) Blackie.
(d) Chindit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far apart were the resthouses in Ceylon?

2. In one of the stories about Mervyn's train escapade, what color were the dogs he was leading?

3. What was the name of the officer in the Ceylon Light Infantry that Mervyn terrified when he was in his twenties?

4. How much cooler was it at the tea estate than it was in Colombo?

5. Near where did David Grenier drown?

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