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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 Harry's wife say reading is bad for?
(a) Brains.
(b) Eyes.
(c) Social life.
(d) Humor.

2. What does Mr. Raynor ask Bullivant to hold out for him?
(a) His hand.
(b) His glasses.
(c) His leg.
(d) His bible.

3. What is Ernest not yet accustomed to?
(a) Relationships.
(b) Southern culture.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) The city life.

4. Who does the book belong to?
(a) Harry's father.
(b) The bookshop.
(c) Harry's boss.
(d) The library.

5. Who does Harry's wife run off with?
(a) A book keeper.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A housepainter.
(d) A builder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to the girl's father?

2. Where does Smith hide the money he steals?

3. Where does the narrator walk with his wife when he receives his first paycheck?

4. What section of the bible does Mr. Raynor read to his class?

5. What does Smith say he can taste in the back of his mouth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the policemen tell Ernest at the end of the story?

2. How does the governor make Smith's life a misery for the rest of the time he is at Borstal?

3. How does Mr. Raynor remember the girl he regarded as physically perfect?

4. What point does Smith make about honesty?

5. Why does Smith say he wrote this story?

6. What is Smith's attitutude when the policeman confronts him about the robbery?

7. What regrets does Mr. Raynor express at the end of the story?

8. How do Smith and Smith steal the money from the butchers?

9. How is Smith caught with the money he steals from the butchers?

10. Describe the meeting between Harry and Kathy ten years later.

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