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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Peter's emergency force Aldred to do?
(a) Sign up for the spy job.
(b) Go to New Zealand.
(c) Write Benedict a letter.
(d) Write Helen a letter.

2. What makes Peter realize he can never love Rita?
(a) Her unwillingness to smile.
(b) Her laziness at work.
(c) Her unwillingness to help the child.
(d) Her unwillingness to marry him.

3. Why can't Peter take Rita to Australia?
(a) The White Australia Policy.
(b) Her family doesn't allow her to leave China.
(c) His family doesn't like her.
(d) She doesn't want to move.

4. What does Mrs. Fry want Helen to write Aldred?
(a) "I am sorry."
(b) "I am coming."
(c) "I am lonely."
(d) "I am in love."

5. What happens to George Laister?
(a) He loses his feet to frostbite.
(b) He loses his feet to paralysis.
(c) He loses his feet to a mine.
(d) He loses his feet to a grenade bomb.

6. Who greets Aldred when he returns to England?
(a) Peter.
(b) Aurora.
(c) Carr.
(d) Iris.

7. Who does Aldred dine with the evening of his return to England?
(a) Iris.
(b) Aurora.
(c) Helen.
(d) Audrey.

8. What does Peter write to Aldred about his feelings of Hong Kong?
(a) He loves the winters.
(b) He would rather be anywhere but there.
(c) He hates the winters.
(d) There is nowhere he would rather be.

9. How does Aldred want to help the Laister family?
(a) By babysitting Edith.
(b) By helping with Tone's court hearing.
(c) By feeding the cat honey.
(d) By helping them buy firewood.

10. What does Aldred's mother want to do with her time now?
(a) Write.
(b) Read.
(c) Travel.
(d) Study.

11. How old is Aurora when she marries?
(a) 27.
(b) 23.
(c) 19.
(d) 17.

12. Who sails on The Mariposa?
(a) Barry and Melba Driscoll.
(b) Bertram.
(c) Helen.
(d) Tad.

13. What does Helen believe New Zealand represents?
(a) The beginning of her adulthood.
(b) The end of her love of Aldred.
(c) The start of her adventures.
(d) The end of the earth.

14. Who does Peter know helps him with the dying child without question?
(a) Rita.
(b) Helen.
(c) Aldred.
(d) Audrey.

15. What about Benedict seems to improve, even as his health fails?
(a) His writing ability.
(b) His ability to sleep.
(c) His intuition.
(d) His mental capacities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to see Peter every day after work?

2. Who does Miss Fry live with?

3. Why do Tad and Helen send Aldred telegrams?

4. What is the one thing Aurora wants to know about Aldred when they meet before she leaves for Kenya?

5. Who does Peter miss above all others?

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