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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. What profession did Lalla's brother Vere try to pursue?
(a) Banker.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Auctioneer.
(d) Farmer.

2. In one of the stories about Mervyn's train escapade, what color were the dogs he was leading?
(a) Yellow.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Brown.

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

4. What costume did Doris wear to the Galle Face Dance?
(a) Dog.
(b) Cat.
(c) Lobster.
(d) Caterpillar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Doris run a small dance and theater school?

2. When did Lalla die?

3. How long had Mervyn and Doris been married when she took him clothes after he stripped, jumped off a train, and rushed into the Kadugannawa tunnel?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why couldn't Mervyn stand Lalla?

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

3. How did Mervyn deter Lalla from ravaging the garden at Kuttapitiya?

4. What was Michael's mother doing when David Grenier drowned?

5. When Mervyn was in his twenties, why did he stop a train ten miles out of Colombo?

6. What was Michael's Aunt Dolly like?

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

8. How did Mervyn nearly kill his three older children?

9. Why was Mervyn banned from the Ceylon Railroads after 1943?

10. Michael recorded sounds of the night in the jungle when he was in Ceylon. What did he hear when he played the tape back in Canada?

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