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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what month did Vera leave Millbank?
(a) April.
(b) December.
(c) June.
(d) September.

3. Where were Betty and Vera assigned to duty in Chapter 7?
(a) Azerbaijan.
(b) Malta.
(c) Austria.
(d) East Africa.

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

5. How did Vera travel back to England in Chapter 7?
(a) On a passenger ship.
(b) On a cargo ship.
(c) By train.
(d) In a plane.

6. In Chapter 11, what is said to have been spreading through Europe?
(a) Anti-British feelings.
(b) Communism.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Unrest.

7. For how many years did Vera lecture on her specialist subject?
(a) More than three years.
(b) Two years.
(c) More than five years.
(d) Only one year.

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

9. Where did Vera live while working at the civilian hospital in Chapter 9?
(a) In a cottage.
(b) In a shared flat.
(c) In a mansion.
(d) In the hospital basement.

10. What was the name of the hospital where Vera worked at her foreign post?
(a) St. Sebastian's.
(b) St. George's.
(c) St. Bernard's.
(d) St. Michael's.

11. In Chapter 7, where was there talk that the hospital staff may be sent from Vera's original foreign post?
(a) Italy.
(b) Gallipoli.
(c) Mesopotamia.
(d) Salonika.

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

13. What was the name of the town Vera was sent to for her next nursing assignment?
(a) Matera.
(b) Agerola.
(c) Linia.
(d) Etaples.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After her brother's death, what did Vera publish?

2. What illness did Vera contract shortly after arriving at her foreign post?

3. Who did Vera visit in hospitals in Chapter 9?

4. What did Vera have published in Chapter 10?

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

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