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

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

3. What was the name of the house where the Daniels lived?
(a) Royden.
(b) Flower Lodge.
(c) Palm Lodge.
(d) Ceylinco.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of the section "The Passions of Lalla," where did Michael say his grandmother died?

2. Why was Doris put in Spittel's Nursing Home?

3. Where did lightning strike the house on the tea estate?

4. During the rainy season, how many hours a day would it rain at the tea estate?

5. How many cows did Lalla and Rene have?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Michael describe the only picture he had of his parents together?

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

3. How did Lalla die?

4. Where did Doris work after the divorce?

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

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

7. 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?

8. How did Lalla's father throw caution to the wind when he married a Dickman?

9. Why was it thought that Rene de Saram's husband was the victim of someone's charm?

10. Why couldn't Mervyn stand Lalla?

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