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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. Ms. Hunff felt this way about the other customers until when?
(a) She realized many of them were most likely the same kind of people Shakespeare would have seen on his visits.
(b) They introduced themselves.
(c) She got to know them.
(d) She left the pub.

2. When she returned to the hotel, Ms. Hanff found a note from Mr. Buckley inviting her to go for a ride where?
(a) To Windsor and Eton.
(b) To Gillingham and Canterbury.
(c) To Uxbridge and Watford.
(d) To Slough and Luton.

3. Ms. Hanff was ______________ the other customers.
(a) Worried about.
(b) Interested in.
(c) Annoyed by.
(d) Surprised by.

4. Ms. Hanff had just boarded the flight to London despite what fact?
(a) She did not want to fly on the plane.
(b) She was not packed.
(c) She had just been released from the hospital after an unscheduled surgery.
(d) She will ill.

5. Ms. Hanff went to lunch with Nora where she was told a story of how Nora and Frank once knew a rare book dealer who turned out to be what?
(a) A Russian spy.
(b) A cop.
(c) A drug dealer.
(d) A king.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what did Ms. Hanff learn while at dinner with Nora and her daughter?

2. 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.

3. Ms. Hanff was going to England to promote what book?

4. Later Ms. Hanff went to Pat Buckley's home where they _______________.

5. On Wednesday, June 30, Ms. Hanff received what while attempting to eat her breakfast?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ms. Hanff's book called "84, Charring Cross Road?"

2. What happened at Broadcasting House?

3. Why did Ms. Grenfell have trouble taking Ms. Hanff home?

4. Who meets Ms. Hanff at the airport?

5. What takes place at the beginning of this book? Why does Ms. Hanff do this?

6. How did Mr. Buckley embarrass Ms. Hanff?

7. What makes Ms. Hanff think of Central Park?

8. How did the Colonel entertain Ms. Hanff on the way to Stratford-on-Avon?

9. What did Ms. Hanff do with Joyce Grenfell and her husband?

10. Why is Ms. Hanff so interested in London?

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