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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Vera have published in Chapter 10?
(a) A play.
(b) A travel diary.
(c) A collection of photographs.
(d) A short story.

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

3. Who did Vera spend a lot of her time with after the Armistice?
(a) Mina.
(b) Hope.
(c) Winifred.
(d) Betty.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, where was there talk that the hospital staff may be sent from Vera's original foreign post?

2. On what topic did Vera become an accomplished lecturer?

3. Who was Winifred?

4. Where did Vera meet with Oswaldo Giacoma?

5. In what month did Vera leave Millbank?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Edward agitated in Chapter 8?

2. After returning from Europe, what was Vera's main source of income? What were Vera's career ambitions?

3. Where did Vera and Winifred decide to travel to in Chapter 11 and why?

4. In Chapter 8, where did Vera ask to be sent for her next nursing assignment?

5. How did Vera travel to Malta? What worried Vera during her journey to Malta?

6. How did Vera pursue her interest in writing in Chapter 10?

7. What did Vera hope to find on her European trip?

8. On what topic did Vera become an accomplished speaker? How in-demand was she as a lecturer?

9. What was the title of Vera's published novel and what was it about?

10. What did Vera find out when she reapplied for foreign service in Chapter 9?

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