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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Ms. Hanff feel about her trip?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Excited.
(c) Sad.
(d) Confused.

2. Why did Ms. Hanff feel this way?
(a) She was afraid no one would meet her plane.
(b) She was unsure what to do when she arrived.
(c) She was upset that her penpal had died.
(d) She was happy to finally be visiting England.

3. At a going away party, several friends had given her a gift certificate to __________.
(a) Macys.
(b) Burtons.
(c) Jarrods.
(d) Harrods.

4. Ms. Hanff and Mr. Buckley then drove around the city and saw what?
(a) Russell Square.
(b) The Tower of London.
(c) National Gallery.
(d) Big Ben.

5. She was hoping to stay in London for how long?
(a) At least two months.
(b) At least two weeks.
(c) At least a year.
(d) At least six months.

6. That night Ms. Hanff went to a dinner party and returned to the hotel feeling like what?
(a) A visitor.
(b) A queen.
(c) A native Londoner.
(d) A duchess.

7. Before reaching their destination, Ms. Hanff told the Colonel about what of which a friend had once sent her a postcard?
(a) A little inn near there.
(b) A little village near there.
(c) A museum near there.
(d) A monument near there.

8. Ms. Hanff got a call from a fan who invited her to visit ___________. Ms. Hanff agreed because she wanted to see the college that John Donne, John Henry Newmann, and Arthur Quiller-Couch had attended, three writers whom Ms. Hanff credits with teaching her a great deal about writing.
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Eaton.
(c) Reading.
(d) Oxford.

9. About what were they asked?
(a) How they met.
(b) Why they decided to finally meet.
(c) What they plan to do together.
(d) What it was like meeting after so many years.

10. On Friday, June 18, Ms. Hanff attempted to take a shower and discovered what?
(a) The shower was designed poorly.
(b) The shower was not working.
(c) There was only a bathtub.
(d) There was no hot water.

11. Ms. Hunff commented on the ceremony of the guards doing what?
(a) Pacing.
(b) Locking the gate.
(c) Changing places.
(d) Standing still.

12. Eddie and Isabel were conservative people at home. How did they act in London?
(a) Relaxed.
(b) Conservatively.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Worried.

13. Ms. Hanff discovers how different London is from what city?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) New York.
(d) Miami.

14. Who are Nora and Sheila Doel?
(a) The sisters of her pen pal at Marks and Co.
(b) The friends of her pen pal at Marks and Co.
(c) The wife and daughter of her pen pal at Marks & Co.
(d) The daughters of her pen pal at Marks and Co.

15. Nora drove Ms. Hanff where for dinner?
(a) To her house.
(b) To an expensive restaurant.
(c) To Mr. Buckley's home.
(d) To her daughter's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Later in the day, Ms. Hanff and Nora Doel were interviewed where?

2. Back at the hotel, Ms. Hanff read an article about her arrival in London and was amused by what?

3. That night, The Colonel called and when he learned of her trip to Oxford, he suggested what?

4. Ms. Hanff went to her publishers' office from where she was taken to _____________.

5. Ena begged Ms. Hanff not to return home too early and to consider doing what?

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