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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 24, when did Len discover that Milton signed his first agreement with the Walser Gruppe?

2. In Chapter 25, who does Dick Sherman say that Kitty Milton wanted to give Moss's share of the island?

3. What did Joan and Len eat at the end of Chapter 22?

4. In Chapter 36, what does Posy show her father?

5. At the end of Chapter 28, who did Moss remind Kitty of?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 26 what did Joan and her father do together when they returned to the island?

2. In Chapter 30, what does Anne think when she sees the photograph of Moss, Evelyn, Joan, and Dickie that Evie shows her?

3. How did Joan do when Kitty say her in the front room with Len in Chapter 33?

4. Who was Evie's father and what does she remember about him in Chapter 30?

5. What dream awakened Kitty in Chapter 29?

6. In Chapter 29, who arrived at the end of the chapter, and what did Joan think when she saw them?

7. What does Evie remember about dinnertime on the island at the end of Chapter 27?

8. What do Evie and her family have for dinner in Chapter 21, and how does the meal suit all of them?

9. What news did the Miltons and Dunc learn about Elsa and her family in Chapter 23?

10. What did Reg do in Chapter 20 with Len occupied?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evie is a professor of history. What is revealed about history through her career and her lessons to her students?

Essay Topic 2

Evie wrote a book about the anchoress. What was an anchoress? What were their motives and their power?

Essay Topic 3

What did Moss mean when he had the idea that blacks and whites could walk through the same doors? What is conveyed about the limitation of race or religious background through his ideas and conversations with Reg?

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