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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 kind of factory does Kathy work in?
(a) A coffee factory.
(b) A lace factory.
(c) A tea factory.
(d) A pie factory.

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

3. What does Mr. Raynor say is his friend?
(a) Experience.
(b) His fists.
(c) books.
(d) His cane.

4. What does Smith say he was born into?
(a) Depravity.
(b) The good life.
(c) War.
(d) Poverty.

5. What is Bullivant's excuse for hitting the boy?
(a) He hit him first.
(b) He is ugly.
(c) He swore at him.
(d) He called his mother a name.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ernest need for his job that afternoon?

2. Where does Mr. Raynor hit Bullivant?

3. What is Harry doing when his wife tells him she loves him?

4. What kind of weapon does Smith compare Borstal to?

5. What sound does Smith say his feet make on the hard soil?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe Harry's last fight with Kathy?

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

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

9. What is Borstal?

10. What point does Smith make about honesty?

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