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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. When did Lalla die?

2. As a teen, what song did Michael dance disgracefully to with girls?

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

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

5. What was the name of Lalla's head milkman?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where did Doris work after the divorce?

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

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

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

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

7. How did Lalla die?

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 Mervyn deter Lalla from ravaging the garden at Kuttapitiya?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Michael was given insight into his thought process by a friend. Discuss how Michael's thought process worked.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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