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

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

3. Who does Miss Fry live with?
(a) Her widowed mother.
(b) Her fiance.
(c) Her sister.
(d) She lives alone.

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

5. Why doesn't Mrs. Ballie like Helen?
(a) She can't type.
(b) She wears a fancy coat.
(c) She lives overseas.
(d) She speaks foreign languages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is given the Leith property in the will?

2. Why does Peter write Audrey a letter so soon?

3. Who does Peter see at a fancy place, dancing and having a good time?

4. What does Peter do when he sees the state of the tailor's child?

5. Where does Barbara's father promise to take the family for three years now?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Peter become ill?

2. What does Bertram suggest Aldred do to get the Driscoll parents to approve Helen's move to England?

3. What does Barbara think is the biggest reason as to why the Fairfax brothers don't talk to the local girls in New Zealand?

4. Why does Aldred turn down Calder's offer to work as a spy?

5. Why does Aldred think the idea of becoming a spy is an impossibility?

6. What do the Fry women think about Helen's love of Aldred?

7. Where does Aldred get the coat he and Helen are lying on in the grove?

8. Why does Aldred believe he has survived all of his past obstacles?

9. Why is Peter so aware of his loneliness in Chapter 12?

10. What are the crisis' that Aldred must deal with upon his return from Nagasaki?

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