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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. How many cows did Lalla and Rene have?
(a) 15.
(b) 30.
(c) 35.
(d) 20.

2. What game did Michael play with Susan and her husband during a thunderstorm on the tea estate?
(a) Checkers.
(b) Poker.
(c) Scrabble.
(d) Monopoly.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was David Grenier's wife?

2. How far was it to drive from Colombo to the tea estate?

3. What was the name of the school nurse who was in charge of Michael and the other boys his age?

4. What did Willie first attempt to raise when he lived at Palm Lodge?

5. Where did Doris hold her breath and faint so that Mervyn would have to stop drinking?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why couldn't Mervyn stand Lalla?

3. What was Michael's Aunt Dolly like?

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

5. How did Lalla die?

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

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

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

9. What did Rene de Saram do when one of her cows caught Rinderpest fever?

10. What did Doris love about Mervyn, even after the divorce?

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