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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. Churchill has a strong preference for what?
(a) Movies
(b) Snakes
(c) The past
(d) Romance

2. What is the largest metropolitan area in the late 1800s?
(a) Berlin
(b) New York
(c) Miami
(d) London

3. What percentage of miners was British?
(a) One-quarter
(b) One-third
(c) One tenth
(d) Nine tenths

4. Churchill likes movies about what topic?
(a) Westerns
(b) Animals
(c) Asia
(d) British Navy

5. The British Empire covers how much of the world in the 1800s?
(a) 5 percent
(b) 50 percent
(c) 10 percent
(d) 25 percent

Short Answer Questions

1. What modern technology does Churchill not like?

2. Churchill is driven out of office over his plans for what?

3. Randolph's mother borrows baby supplies from whom?

4. What does Winston develop at Harrow?

5. How many warships does the British Navy have in the late 1800s?

Short Essay Questions

1. How large is the British Empire in the late 1800s? Give some examples of places that are included in the Empire at this time. Where does the Empire begin?

2. What is Winston's birth like?

3. What are Winston's experiences like at the school in Brighton? What changes occur from the school in Ascot?

4. How does Randolph's political career end?

5. What is Jennie and Randolph's relationship like? How do they spend their time?

6. What is Winston's experience like at St. George's School near Ascot? Why does Winston stop attending?

7. What is the relationship like between Winston and his parents? Who cares for Winston?

8. What is the situation at Dunkirk as the book opens?

9. What military school does Winston attend? What are his experiences there like?

10. Why does the family move to Dublin? Why do they move back to London?

(see the answer keys)

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