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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. Where does Benedict want to go with Leith?
(a) Paris.
(b) Hong Kong.
(c) Sydney.
(d) Hiroshima.

2. When does Aldred start to learn Chinese?
(a) When he enlists in the service.
(b) Nine years of age.
(c) Five years of age.
(d) While he walks across China.

3. What does Aldred bring as a present when he arrives for breakfast with Helen and Benedict?
(a) Brandy.
(b) Flowers.
(c) His report.
(d) A book.

4. What does Helen do in Marseilles that Benedict admires above all else?
(a) She buys everyone lunch.
(b) She walks with Beneditct up a monument.
(c) She buys her mom a comb.
(d) She ditches Benedict and her mom to ride a bus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aldred spend two years walking across China?

2. Where do the Driscoll siblings start their journey East alone?

3. Where is Peter's new house?

4. Where is Aldred and his escort traveling?

5. How many servicewomen work in a room next to Peter Exley's?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Aldred ask his father for money when he returns from his Easter trip to Florence?

2. How does Aldred come to know Raimonda and Gigliola?

3. Why don't the Driscoll siblings ask Aldred about his war experiences?

4. What does Peter think about Aldred's situation with Helen?

5. What impression of the Driscoll family does Aldred get upon meeting them?

6. Why does Peter's purchases as a youth embarrass his parents?

7. How does Aldred get the job of studying China and Japan?

8. How does Aldred describe Helen?

9. Why doesn't Aldred mind being alone?

10. Why does Helen cry when hearing the story about Raimonda and Gigliola?

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