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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Audrey wish shows up to the Admiral's party?
(a) Peter.
(b) Aldred.
(c) The General.
(d) Benedict.

2. What does Benedict fear happens when Aldred leaves for Hong Kong?
(a) He fears Helen runs away.
(b) He fears Barry does not let Aldred return.
(c) He fears Aldred does not return.
(d) He fears he dies.

3. What does Bertram send Benedict through the mail?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Homework.
(c) Photos.
(d) Crossword puzzles.

4. How does Aldred describe Peter to Helen in the letter?
(a) As a lonely man.
(b) As a humerous man.
(c) As a bitter man.
(d) As a mean man.

5. Who is Charlotte?
(a) A girl Aldred knows as a child.
(b) The Hiroshima bomb site tour guide.
(c) The girl who influences him to learn Japanese.
(d) A woman he meets during the war.

6. Why does the plane crash at the airport?
(a) The engine stops.
(b) It is out of fuel.
(c) It comes in too low and hits rubble.
(d) It is shot down.

7. Who is the Portuguese typist?
(a) Miss Mills.
(b) Iris.
(c) Miss Xavier.
(d) Norah.

8. What sport is played near Peter Exley's office?
(a) Cricket.
(b) Football.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Soccer.

9. Who is Audrey Fellows?
(a) Aldred's ex-wife.
(b) Peter's ex-wife.
(c) A woman Aldred knows during the war.
(d) A single woman Aldred meets in Hong Kong.

10. How long does it take the Signal Corps' wife to travel from Sydney to Kure?
(a) Five years.
(b) Five months.
(c) Five days.
(d) Five weeks.

11. Why does Aldred call for a tutor?
(a) To learn French.
(b) To learn Chinese.
(c) To learn Japanese.
(d) To learn geology.

12. What happens to Gigliola?
(a) She flees the country.
(b) She marries Aldred.
(c) She is shot.
(d) She marries Oliver.

13. What is Peter Exley's job?
(a) To represent war criminals.
(b) To prosecute war crimes.
(c) To write about The Bomb aftermath.
(d) To write about China's civil war.

14. Who is Benedict?
(a) The 20-year-old son of the Driscolls.
(b) An English soldier.
(c) A traveling scholar.
(d) An Australian solider.

15. What does Aldred believe literature does for Helen and Benedict?
(a) It makes them sad.
(b) It makes them appear like young children.
(c) It frees and delievers them.
(d) It makes them anti-social.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Peter's new house?

2. What does Helen do in Marseilles that Benedict admires above all else?

3. What does the American doctor send Benedict?

4. Who owns the dented tin box with "WAR GRAVES COMMISSION" engraved on it?

5. Why doesn't Aldred want to question the children about the body?

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