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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Theo's purpose for keeping a diary?
(a) To recount his life for whomever may find the book.
(b) To log the second half of his life's memories for his own enjoyment later.
(c) Simply to pass the time.
(d) It's a self-exploring, emotional release.

2. What do Theo and his wife do shortly after the death of their daughter?
(a) Have a son.
(b) Divorce.
(c) Quit their jobs.
(d) Move closer to the city.

3. Who are the Grenadiers?
(a) Serial killers.
(b) Xan's private army.
(c) Terrorists.
(d) A band.

4. Who points out Felicia's making money out of the former system of criminal prosecution?
(a) Harriet.
(b) Carl.
(c) Theo.
(d) Xan.

5. How many times does Theo lie to the State Security Police when they visit him?
(a) Five times.
(b) He didn't.
(c) Twice.
(d) Once.

6. How does the driver describe the flagellants?
(a) "A horde of vile beasts unworthy of breath."
(b) "An obnoxious reminder to our fate."
(c) "A group adding nothing more than insult to injury."
(d) "A rabble of no-hopers."

7. What is the first of the Five Fishes' concerns that Theo speaks of at the meeting in Chapter 12?
(a) The Isle of Man.
(b) The Quietus.
(c) The Sojourners.
(d) An election.

8. Who attacks Theo at the Quietus he witnesses?
(a) A police officer.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A Sojourner.
(d) Someone he tries to stop from committing suicide.

9. After his thoughts swirl from the visit of the SSP and then the Five Fishes, what does Theo ponder next in Chapter 18?
(a) Helena.
(b) Hilda.
(c) Traveling.
(d) Dinner.

10. Who has Theo previously been to Blythburgh with?
(a) Xan and his family.
(b) His first girlfriend.
(c) His ex-wife and daughter.
(d) His parents.

11. What does Theo do with the Five Fishes' pamphlet?
(a) Wrote his grocery list over it.
(b) Flushed it down the toilet.
(c) Showed it to Helena.
(d) Saved it in his diary.

12. Who is Rolf?
(a) Julian's husband.
(b) A priest.
(c) Julian's brother.
(d) Theo's friend from college.

13. Who beat themselves for the sin of mankind?
(a) Youth groups.
(b) Evangelicals.
(c) Flagellants.
(d) Sojourners.

14. Xan's large home becomes what in later years?
(a) A church.
(b) A school.
(c) A mental hospital.
(d) A nursing home.

15. Where is Jasper considering moving to?
(a) Greece.
(b) Oxford.
(c) New York.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Shakespeare's plays is referred to at the end of Chapter 13?

2. Why is Digby afraid of Theo?

3. What does Theo expect in the near future as he contemplates his meeting with the SSP?

4. "I wouldn't say the Tudor age was uniquely cruel... They died young in those days. Every age has its cruelties." Who says this?

5. Why does Theo believe that Helena speaks poorly of him to Rupert?

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