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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the one thing Aurora wants to know about Aldred when they meet before she leaves for Kenya?
(a) If he wants to go to Kenya with her.
(b) If he has a woman in his life.
(c) If he still loves Aurora.
(d) If he ever loves Oliver.

2. How does Helen describe Dench?
(a) Nice.
(b) Creepy.
(c) Handsome.
(d) Rude.

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

4. Where is Audrey sailing?
(a) Kure.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Yokohama.
(d) The United States.

5. Who does Aurora meet in Kenya?
(a) Raimonda.
(b) Helen.
(c) Benedict.
(d) Peter.

6. What happens to the child Peter takes to the hospital?
(a) She is alive but paralyzed.
(b) She dies in the taxi.
(c) She lives.
(d) She dies in the hospital.

7. Who is given the Leith property in the will?
(a) Aurora.
(b) Iris.
(c) Aldred.
(d) A charity.

8. Who invites Helen to Lowry Bay?
(a) A girl from typing class.
(b) Melba.
(c) A girl from French class.
(d) Miss Fry.

9. Who comes to see Peter every day after work?
(a) Brenda.
(b) Rysom.
(c) Rita.
(d) Audrey.

10. Where is Brian Talbot going in six days?
(a) To Tokyo with Benedict.
(b) A new assignment in New Zealand.
(c) Home to Australia.
(d) Fighting in Korea.

11. Who does Peter miss above all others?
(a) Audrey.
(b) Aldred.
(c) Bertram.
(d) His father.

12. Why does Peter write Audrey a letter so soon?
(a) He feels the need to coverse with her.
(b) He realizes he is madly in love with her.
(c) He forgets to wish her good luck.
(d) He does't want her to forget him.

13. What happens to Peter?
(a) He gets ill from the infected child.
(b) He leaves China to search for Aldred.
(c) He is wounded in a fight with the tailor.
(d) He leaves China to avoid Rita.

14. What does Peter attempt to do in the hospital?
(a) Run away.
(b) Overdose on pills.
(c) Punch a doctor.
(d) Stop allowing vistors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Aldred's attitude toward war change?

2. What does Aldred think of most girls?

3. Who is Lillian Geary?

4. What does Peter's emergency force Aldred to do?

5. What does Helen believe New Zealand represents?

(see the answer keys)

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