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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Uncle Ernest.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Ernest say never comes into his mind?
(a) Love.
(b) Help.
(c) Injury.
(d) Scarred.

2. What part of England is Borstal in?
(a) Essex.
(b) Middlesex.
(c) Buckinghamshire.
(d) Surrey.

3. What does Smith say the policeman has on the brain?
(a) Mistrust.
(b) Tea.
(c) Women.
(d) Money.

4. What does the middle-aged man always speak in one breath?
(a) His name and trade.
(b) Rimbaud poems.
(c) His children's names.
(d) The football scores.

5. What were dead and dying men straggling in the First World War?
(a) Sandbags.
(b) Barbed wire.
(c) Trip wire.
(d) Metal fencing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease does Smith contract at the end of the book?

2. What is the name of the newspaper the governor is reading?

3. What does Ernest say people he meets treat him like?

4. What does Ernest usually do at 9 o'clock?

5. What is the middle-aged man coming out of at the beginning of the book?

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