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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 Smith say he was doing while the robbery took place?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Playing football.
(c) Competing in a race.
(d) Drinking.

2. What does Smith say his enemies can drop on him for all he cares?
(a) Rubble.
(b) Atom bombs.
(c) Bricks.
(d) Canon balls.

3. What does Mr. Raynor leap over the desks like?
(a) A leopard.
(b) A giraffe.
(c) A kangaroo.
(d) A hyena.

4. Where is Smith from originally?
(a) Nottingham.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) London.
(d) Newcastle.

5. What do the two girls call Ernest?
(a) Uncle Ernest.
(b) Second Dad.
(c) Saint Ern.
(d) Father Ernie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harry say is a stroke of God's luck?

2. What does Bullivant say he will bring out to settle Mr. Raynor?

3. What does Mr. Raynor see trundling along in a line?

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

5. How does the elder girl look at Ernest when he offers to buy her sister something to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Harry remember about his marriage to Kathy?

2. In what way is Ernest a ghost of his former self?

3. How does Kathy die?

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

5. Why do Mr. Raynor's pupils no longer bother to sneer at him for his well-known habit of staring at the drapery girls?

6. How does Mr. Raynor reward Robinson?

7. What does Mr. Raynor see happening in the Draper's shop at the beginning of the story?

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

9. What is the girls' family life like?

10. Why do people start suspecting Ernest's intentions towards the young girls?

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