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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Vera take her mother after returning to England in Chapter 9?
(a) To Vera's flat.
(b) To her mother's house.
(c) To the 1st London General Hospital.
(d) To a private clinic.

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

3. What did Vera feel she had to lecture about?
(a) Bolshevism.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Industrialism.

4. Who helped Vera publish her work?
(a) Vera's father.
(b) Roland's mother.
(c) Rose Macauley.
(d) Sir John Marriott.

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

6. In Chapter 9, what did the letters from Etaples tell Vera?
(a) That she had to return immediately.
(b) That the camp had been bombed.
(c) That the nurses there had all become ill.
(d) That she had left some of her belongings behind.

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

8. Who did Sir Percy Harris work for?
(a) The League of Nations.
(b) The London Mayor's office.
(c) The British military.
(d) The London County Council.

9. On what topic did Vera become an accomplished lecturer?
(a) The League of Nations.
(b) Women's suffrage.
(c) The British health care system.
(d) Equality for men and women.

10. Which ward was Vera assigned to in Chapter 8?
(a) The German prisoner ward.
(b) The civilian ward.
(c) The British ward.
(d) The pediatric ward.

11. What illness did Vera contract shortly after arriving at her foreign post?
(a) Diphtheria.
(b) Food poisoning.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Influenza.

12. What did Vera spend a lot of time thinking about after the Armistice?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Whether to go back to Oxford.
(c) Travelling in Europe.
(d) Writing.

13. In Chapter 7, who died in April?
(a) Edward.
(b) Betty.
(c) Victor.
(d) Geoffrey.

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

15. In Chapter 9, where were the nurses in Etaples said to have been sleeping?
(a) On the hospital floor.
(b) At a luxury hotel.
(c) In a quarantined area.
(d) In the trenches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Vera call her new roommate in Chapter 8?

2. Why was Vera unable to go out until the end of her leave in Chapter 8?

3. In Chapter 10, in which month did Vera and her flatmate leave for a European trip?

4. What was the name of the feminist campaign group that Vera was a member of?

5. Where did Vera and Winifred find a new flat?

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