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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Doris leave for England?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1949.

2. What type of bushes were outside the dining room doors at the tea estate?
(a) Lilac.
(b) Rhododendren.
(c) Tea.
(d) Francisco.

3. How far was it from Galle to Colombo?
(a) 70 miles.
(b) 80 miles.
(c) 65 miles.
(d) 75 miles.

4. What was the name of Lalla's head milkman?
(a) Brumphy.
(b) Daniels.
(c) Bevan.
(d) McCay.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What flowers did Michael remember seeing on the last estate where he lived with his siblings?

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

3. When did Michael's Aunt Dolly begin smoking?

4. How many deer did Michael and his family see on the other side of the lake when they were showering in the jungle rain?

5. Where did Doris and Mervyn go in Nuwara Eliya to try to repair their marriage?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Doris do when she was leaving Mervyn and he threw the car key into the tea bushes?

2. What happened to the eggs that Willie Gratiaen imported from Australia?

3. Where did Doris work after the divorce?

4. What did Doris coach the three older children to do when Mervyn lapsed into one of his alcoholic states?

5. What was Michael's Aunt Dolly like?

6. Why did it take so long to drive from Colombo to the tea estate?

7. What did Lalla do when Shelton de Saram broke their engagement?

8. How did Michael get a bath when he was five and attending a boarding school?

9. Why did Lalla come to Kuttapitiya when Michael and his family lived there?

10. What did a fortune-teller predict when Doris left Ceylon in 1949?

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