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

2. Where was Queen Alexandra's Hospital located?
(a) Mayfair.
(b) Holborn.
(c) Paddington.
(d) Millbank.

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

4. What was the name of the civilian hospital Vera was assigned to in Chapter 9?
(a) St. Mary's.
(b) St. Augustus Hospital.
(c) St. Jude's.
(d) St. Paul's.

5. What kind of rules still existed at Vera's school?
(a) Rules about women playing sports.
(b) Rules about which classes women could take.
(c) Rules about students holding down jobs.
(d) Rules about the fraternization of males and females.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Vera earn her income from?

2. In Chapter 11, what is said to have been spreading through Europe?

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

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

5. How did Vera view Winifred?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What controversy did Vera become involved in in Chapter 10. Who did she meet as a result?

3. What was life at Etaples like for Vera?

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. In Chapter 11, what were Vera's thoughts on marriage?

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

8. What did students who had been involved with the war find hard to adjust to at Oxford?

9. Who did Vera clash with in Chapter 10?

10. How did Vera travel back to England for a visit in Chapter 7?

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