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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. When Nan bought a book for Teddy, what book did she buy for herself?
(a) This Side of Paradise.
(b) Tales of the Jazz age.
(c) The Great Gatsby.
(d) Tender is the Night.

2. What rank did Archie attain in the war?
(a) Sergeant.
(b) Air Specialist.
(c) Colonel.
(d) Lance Corporal.

3. Where does Nan spot Agatha's wedding ring when she drops off Archie's car after Agatha's disappearance?
(a) Archie's desk.
(b) Entry table.
(c) Corner of the study.
(d) Floor of the bedroom.

4. Before Agatha disappeared, how many times had Archie put Teddy to bed?
(a) 1.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) Never.

5. How did Nan's uncle Jack and Seamus die?
(a) Shed fell on them.
(b) Horse trampled them.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Influenza.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color brick is the convent in Sunday's Corner?

2. In 1926, when did Nan write to Finbarr?

3. How tall was Agatha in 1926?

4. What name did Nan give her lost child?

5. How long before Nan met Finbarr Mahoney did he trade mackerel for a puppy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nan describe herself and her sisters?

2. Why did Nan not stay in Ireland during the war?

3. How does Nan describe Finbarr when she sees him in Harrogate?

4. How is Teddy being raised, and how does that echo Agatha's childhood?

5. How did Colleen die?

6. Where does Chilton find Agatha?

7. Why do the police come and get Archie when he is spending the weekend with Nan at the Owens'?

8. What type of car does Archie drive, and who gave him the car?

9. What does Finbarr do when the War comes?

10. Where did Nan's father grow up, and what happened to the home place?

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