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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 does Nam find his father has done to his story by the river?
(a) Thrown it in the river.
(b) Read it.
(c) Burned it.
(d) Sold it.

2. What is the reason the buyers decide against purchasing Jamie’s family’s home in Halflead Bay?
(a) His father scares them off.
(b) The price is too high.
(c) His mother scares them off.
(d) The house needs too much work.

3. When their group finds the stash of weapons, what do they take only because Pedro has insisted?
(a) Swords.
(b) Hand grenades.
(c) Pistols.
(d) Colts.

4. What does Cale tell Jamie about his dead girlfriend whose necklace he wears?
(a) She is alive and lives in Cairns.
(b) She committed suicide.
(c) He made her up.
(d) He killed her.

5. Who is Jamie’s friend who tells stories of his travels and wears a necklace that he says belonged to his dead girlfriend?
(a) Colin.
(b) Jack.
(c) Lester.
(d) Cale.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ron meet before going to see El Padre?

2. What is the name of the girl Jamie likes in “Halflead Bay”?

3. Who does Dory hit, possibly accidentally, when he comes to save Jamie from his fight with Dory?

4. What is Jamie’s nickname, which he is upset to find out his father knows when he hears him telling his mother about it during the storm?

5. When Ron comes home after his business with Luis, who does his mom tell him called?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Nam interviews his father and rewrites his story, what does his father do with his story when he takes it outside?

2. When Henry arrives at Carnegie Hall to try to see Elise he is given a note from her. What does the note say?

3. What does Nam find out about his father’s past when he gets drunk at a party in Melbourne and tells his friends his story?

4. Who is Cale and how does Jamie know him?

5. How does Alison behave when Jamie goes to Dory’s house to follow through with the fight?

6. What did Jamie’s father do after his mother was diagnosed with MS?

7. Why are Carlos and Salesio missing from Ron’s gallada as explained at the start of “Cartagena”?

8. How do Jamie’s parents stop the fight between Jamie and Dory?

9. Where does Henry go to meet his daughter Elise and her fiancé before the concert and what happens there?

10. What does Alison tell Jamie her relationship with Dory is like when they are alone on the pier after the party?

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