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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 type of animal droppings surrounded the house on stilts in the jungle, where Michael and his family stayed?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Deer.
(c) Boar.
(d) Elephant.

2. How long were Mervyn and Doris married before they divorced?
(a) 17 years.
(b) 16 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 14 years.

3. Where did lightning strike the house on the tea estate?
(a) Near the fuse box.
(b) The attic.
(c) Porch roof.
(d) A back bedroom.

4. How long was the tunnel where Mervyn threatened to commit suicide?
(a) 1/4 mile.
(b) 1/2 mile.
(c) 1/3 mile.
(d) 3/4 mile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the war, where did Lalla open up a boarding house?

2. Who was David Grenier's wife?

3. How tall was Michael's Aunt Dolly?

4. How far apart were the resthouses in Ceylon?

5. What would wake Michael and his siblings on the last estate where they lived as children?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where did Doris work after the divorce?

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

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

6. How did Lalla die?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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