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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Lalla when she became a widow?

2. What gear was the car in when the transmission broke?

3. What was Susan's husband's name?

4. How far was the car from the house when it stalled?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Doris work after the divorce?

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

3. Why couldn't Mervyn stand Lalla?

4. How did Lalla die?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did it take to build a road from Colombo to Kandy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mervyn had an obsession with trains. Discuss why Mervyn's train rides became notorious.

Essay Topic 2

Michael and the children came upon a dead kabaragoya on the beach. Compare the kabaragoya and the thalagoya.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Mervyn's and Doris's courtship.

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