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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kay decide she will do concerning Carriscant?
(a) Talk to her grandmother.
(b) Write some people in New Guinea.
(c) Take the picture she snapped of him and show her mother.
(d) Hear his story.

2. What type of barn has Pantaleon built?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Gable.
(c) Feed barn.
(d) Nipa.

3. Why does Kay's lawyer call her?
(a) To find out if she wants to file for bankruptcy.
(b) To suggest Kay contact a friend of the lawyer's in Washington, D. C.
(c) To tell her that he has a buyer for her house.
(d) To say that he thinks Kay will be able to keep her house.

4. In what condition is Kay's house?
(a) Torn down.
(b) Completed.
(c) Painted a different color.
(d) Half gone.

5. What does Kay do for Philip?
(a) Finds him another job.
(b) Nurses him through an alcoholic binge.
(c) Gives him enough money to pay his utilities.
(d) Helps him check into rehab.

6. What has Carriscant researched?
(a) Bobby activity in the States.
(b) Kay's real birth certificate.
(c) Photograph he showed Kay earlier.
(d) Applying for a visa for Portugal.

7. When does Annaliese's mother die?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1899.

8. What appeared in a magazine article in 1927?
(a) Picture of Carriscant and Annaliese.
(b) Brief article about Kay's work as an architect.
(c) Photograph that interests Carriscant.
(d) Article about Philip's family.

9. What does Kay think started Philip on the road to his alcoholism?
(a) Losing his father and older brother in a mining accident.
(b) Flunking out of MIT.
(c) The death of his son.
(d) Losing his fortune in the stock market crash of 1929.

10. How does Carriscant view Cruz professionally?
(a) As a dangerous quack.
(b) As an incompetent prosecutor.
(c) As too compassionate with criminals.
(d) As the best surgeon he's ever seen.

11. How old was Coleman when he died?
(a) 16 days.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 12 years.

12. What is the year when the novel opens?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1952.

13. What does Philip do in a grand gesture?
(a) Asks Kay to remarry him.
(b) Pays back Kay.
(c) Asks Kay to draw up plans for a house for him.
(d) Shows Key his new home.

14. In what way does Cruz consider himself superior in the novel?
(a) Intellectually.
(b) Professionally.
(c) Racially.
(d) Socially.

15. Where do Kay and Carriscant first fly?
(a) Seattle.
(b) Boston.
(c) London.
(d) New York City.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Carriscant crosses a field on his way home?

2. What is Kay's stipulation for her going with Carriscant?

3. What does Carriscant have when he returns to Manila?

4. Where does Kay have lunch with her mother?

5. What does Cruz refuse to do?

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