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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. How did the young girl die?
(a) She was run over.
(b) She was murdered.
(c) She killed herself.
(d) She had a heart attack.

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

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

4. What section of the bible does Mr. Raynor read to his class?
(a) Job.
(b) Numbers.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Exodos.

5. Where does the young man walk the young girl to?
(a) The grocer's.
(b) The train station.
(c) The shopping mall.
(d) The bus stop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harry's wife hate like poison?

2. What house is Handley in?

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

4. What is the cleanest thing about the middle-aged man?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Harry know that Kathy wants money for beer?

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

7. Why does Colin agree to run in a competition for Borstal?

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

9. How does Kathy die?

10. Describe Harry's last fight with Kathy?

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