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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 job is Aldred offered by Calder?
(a) To be a Japanese studies professor.
(b) To be a military advisor.
(c) To be a poet.
(d) To be a spy.

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

3. How is Aldred wounded in war?
(a) Knife wound.
(b) He lost hearing in one ear.
(c) Gunshot wound.
(d) Grenade bomb.

4. Why does Bertram think Ben never returns from California?
(a) His illness appals his parents.
(b) He dies from his illness soon.
(c) He falls in love with California.
(d) He doesn't want to live with his parents again.

5. What does Aldred think of most girls?
(a) That they are chatty.
(b) That they are kind.
(c) That they are organized.
(d) That they are pretty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peter attempt to do in the hospital?

2. How does Aldred want to help the Laister family?

3. What happens to the child Peter takes to the hospital?

4. Who does Aurora meet in Kenya?

5. Why doesn't Peter want to marry Rita?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rita help Peter while he is in the hospital?

2. How does Peter become ill?

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

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

5. Why does Sidney think Helen and Aldred will never see each other again?

6. Why is Aurora planning on leaving England so soon after Aldred returns?

7. Why doesn't Rita want to help Peter with the dying child?

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

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

10. Why do the Fry women like Helen so much?

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