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

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

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

4. Who did Vera get to meet as a result of her writing?
(a) The Prime Minister.
(b) The Queen.
(c) The commander of the British army.
(d) The head of Oxford.

5. What ship did Vera and Betty take to their foreign post?
(a) The Britannic.
(b) The Royal Earnest.
(c) The Queen Mary.
(d) The Discovery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject did Vera switch to when she returned to Somerville?

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

3. What did Vera earn her income from?

4. Who mainly was treated at the hospital Vera began working at in Chapter 7?

5. What did Vera want a career as?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the Armistice, what did Vera spend a lot of time thinking about?

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

3. How did Vera and Winifred's odd work schedules cause them problems in Chapter 11?

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

5. What was Vera's first assignment upon arriving at the hospital in France?

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

7. Why was Edward agitated in Chapter 8?

8. What was life at Etaples like for Vera?

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

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

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