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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What skill of Walter's does Kitty learn about from the nuns that surprises her?
(a) Walter is very fluent in French.
(b) Walter has an excellent singing voice.
(c) Walter is an excellent cook and helps with meals at the convent.
(d) Walter is very good with babies and loves to play with them.

2. How many people die each day in Mei-tan-fu from the cholera?
(a) 115.
(b) 25.
(c) 100.
(d) 76.

3. When Kitty asks Walter if he despises her in Chapter 47, what is his response?
(a) He tells her he despises himself and her.
(b) He tells her he loves her and always will.
(c) He tells her he despises himself.
(d) He tells her he doesn't know how he feels about her.

4. During Kitty and Walter's discussion in Chapter 47, what does Kitty suppose Walter to be suffering from?
(a) A headache.
(b) Incredible guilt.
(c) The beginning signs of cholera.
(d) A broken heart.

5. When Walter asks Kitty if the baby is his, what is her response?
(a) She tells him it is his.
(b) She refuses to answer.
(c) She doesn't know.
(d) She tells him it is Charlie's.

6. What is Waddington's affinity for liquor?
(a) He never drinks and despises liquor.
(b) He loves to drink and is frequently a little drunk.
(c) He uses liquor medicinally.
(d) He enjoys liquor only sparingly.

7. Where do Waddington and Kitty make an excursion to on a Sunday in Chapter 53?
(a) A Buddhist monastery.
(b) A beautiful waterful.
(c) To visit a new British family from Hong Kong.
(d) A neighboring city.

8. Where is Walter buried?
(a) He is cremated.
(b) In a Mei-tan-fu cemetery.
(c) His body is interred in Hong Kong.
(d) His body is sent back to England.

9. Who is the first person to suppose that Kitty is expecting?
(a) Mother Superior.
(b) Sister St. Joseph.
(c) Waddington.
(d) Walter.

10. How does Kitty find the streets of Mei-tan-fu on her way to the convent?
(a) Everyone on the streets seems extremely curious of her.
(b) They are extremely dirty, with a horrible stench.
(c) The streets are very clean and well-kept.
(d) They are crowded with throngs of people.

11. What does Kitty think of her first view from her window of the bungalow?
(a) She finds it dreary and depressing.
(b) She takes no notice of the view and is so depressed she doesn't really register her surroundings.
(c) She finds the view pretty much the same as her view in Hong Kong.
(d) She finds it breathtakingly beautiful.

12. How does Waddington regard the Catholic nuns of the convent?
(a) He thinks their devotion to humanity is misplaced.
(b) He doesn't find them very devoted.
(c) He thinks their devotion is a certain kind of madness.
(d) He is awed by their selfless sacrifice.

13. What work does Walter quote with his last words?
(a) Goldsmith's Elegy.
(b) A Shakespearean sonnet.
(c) A verse in St. John in the Bible.
(d) A Chinese proverb.

14. What experience does Mother Superior recount to Kitty in Chapter 60?
(a) She recounts when she told her family her decision to become a nun.
(b) She recounts happy memories from her childhood.
(c) She tells Kitty of her journey to China.
(d) She tells Kitty of her first love.

15. What vocation does Sister St. Joseph's family do in France?
(a) They own a small mercantile shop in the country.
(b) They are farmers.
(c) They own a bakery.
(d) Her father and mother both work for the government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Waddington think of Dorothy?

2. Why doesn't Kitty converse with Sister St. Joseph on her first visit to the convent?

3. What modes of transportation do Kitty and Walter utilize to get to Mei-tan-fu?

4. What illness does Walter have, as described in Chapter 62?

5. Who is the first person Kitty meets when she reaches her new home in Mei-tan-fu?

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