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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 decide to do with the dying child?
(a) Take her to the hospital by taxi.
(b) Beg Rita for translation help.
(c) Wait for an ambulance.
(d) Let her stay home with her parents.

2. Who prepares tea for Miss Fry in the afternoon?
(a) Helen.
(b) A servant.
(c) Melba.
(d) Audrey.

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

4. Why doesn't Peter want to marry Rita?
(a) She is not kind enough.
(b) He is not serious enough.
(c) She is too young for him.
(d) He doesn't love her.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who has Aldred's papers that are hiding under Benedict's bed?

4. Why can't Peter take Rita to Australia?

5. Why do Tad and Helen send Aldred telegrams?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What presents do Aldred and Aurora give each other and why?

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

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

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

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

10. What makes Peter compare Rita with Audrey?

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