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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Vera experience for the first time while she was in London in Chapter 8?
(a) A meeting with a publisher.
(b) A wartime rally.
(c) Voting.
(d) A bombing raid.

2. What did Vera want a career as?
(a) A lecturer.
(b) A nurse.
(c) An activist.
(d) A writer.

3. In Chapter 8, where did Edward indicate he may be sent to fight?
(a) Palestine.
(b) Italy.
(c) China.
(d) Africa.

4. Who did Vera visit in hospitals in Chapter 9?
(a) Fellow voluntary aid detachment nurses.
(b) Patients who had been transferred from Malta.
(c) People who were with her brother when he died.
(d) Former classmates.

5. What was the name of the feminist campaign group that Vera was a member of?
(a) Women for England.
(b) The Six Point Group.
(c) Women's Social and Political Union.
(d) The London Suffragettes.

6. What did Vera's school allow for the first time after the war?
(a) Female team sports.
(b) Female students wearing trousers.
(c) Male-female debates.
(d) Scholarships for low income students.

7. Why did Vera and Betty grow apart in Chapter 7?
(a) Vera spent a lot of time alone reading.
(b) Betty and Vera were too busy to see each other.
(c) Betty and Vera fought over a man.
(d) Betty became part of the tennis set.

8. How did Vera do on her first exams in Chapter 10?
(a) Not as well as Winifred.
(b) She didn't do as well as she had hoped.
(c) She finished top of her class.
(d) She failed.

9. Compared to Malta, why did Vera like her new work post in Chapter 8?
(a) She had more privacy.
(b) She had less free time.
(c) She was in a populated area.
(d) She had more free time.

10. Where did Vera and Winifred find a new flat?
(a) Fitzrovia.
(b) Maida Vale.
(c) Pimlico.
(d) Westbourne Green.

11. What did a cable that Vera received in Chapter 7 say?
(a) That Edward had been injured.
(b) That Victor had been seriously wounded.
(c) That Edward had run away from his regiment.
(d) That Vera's father was ill.

12. What was the title of Vera's published novel?
(a) Honourable Estate.
(b) The Lament of the Demobilised.
(c) The Dark Tide.
(d) The Superfluous Woman.

13. What got lost in Chapter 8?
(a) Edward's baggage.
(b) Vera's manuscript.
(c) Vera's parents' savings.
(d) Vera's engagement ring.

14. Who mainly was treated at the hospital Vera began working at in Chapter 7?
(a) Civilian patients.
(b) Torpedo attack survivors.
(c) Bombing victims.
(d) Patients with little chance of survival.

15. Why did Vera ask for leave at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) Vera had been contacted by a publisher.
(b) Vera's brother was injured.
(c) Vera's mother was sick.
(d) Betty needed Vera's help.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Vera have published in Chapter 10?

2. What did Vera make notes for in Chapter 10?

3. What was Vera's published novel about?

4. Who looked down on the V.A.D.s at the civilian hospital in Chapter 9?

5. How did Vera view Winifred?

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