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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. Whose family home is Monocacy?
(a) Henny's.
(b) Sam's.
(c) Bert Anderson's.
(d) Beulah's.

2. What is Togoha House?
(a) The dorm where Louie Pollit lives.
(b) The Pollit's residence.
(c) Sam Pollit's workplace.
(d) The Governor's mansion.

3. How old was Louie when her mother died?
(a) Eighteen months.
(b) Six months.
(c) Six years.
(d) Nine.

4. Why is Henny irritated by the children writing letters to Sam in Malaysia?
(a) They never finish their stories.
(b) They have too many questions.
(c) They don't write quickly.
(d) They don't know how to spell simple words.

5. What makes Sam a hero to his department?
(a) He received an award for Field Biology.
(b) He is appointed to an Anthropological Mission.
(c) He located an intact specimen of an extinct species.
(d) His data proved a theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam talk about with Whitey?

2. What does Sam swear to Henny?

3. Where does Beulah live?

4. What does Louie do when Henny is in her special place?

5. Who is Hazel Moore?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Louie treated in the Pollit household?

2. What is Sam's relationship with Colonel Willets?

3. Describe Josephine Pollit's arrival at Tohoga House.

4. What do Louie and Nellie discuss when Henny and the children get to Monocacy?

5. What does Henny complain about to Bert Anderson?

6. How does the narrator characterize Sam's world view?

7. What is the financial state of the Pollit household?

8. Describe Henny's relationship with relation to the children?

9. Describe Sam's return home.

10. Describe Henny's letter from her brother, Norman Collyer.

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