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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. When Kitty arrives at the convent to offer her services in Chapter 48, why is Mother Superior crying?
(a) She found her suffering from symptons of cholera.
(b) A beloved orphan girl had just died.
(c) She had received bad news from home.
(d) Another nun had died during the night.

2. What startles the servants accompanying Kitty on the road to Mei-tan-fu?
(a) A snake across the roadway.
(b) A little boy crying for his mother.
(c) The distant shriek of a large animal.
(d) Four peasants bearing a coffin.

3. As Kitty spends more time with the nuns, how does she feel about the Catholic faith?
(a) She feels too unworthy to become a Catholic.
(b) She admires the nuns, but does not share their beliefs.
(c) She begins to adopt Catholic beliefs and wishes to be baptized.
(d) She is disgusted by Catholic beliefs.

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

5. What illness does Walter have, as described in Chapter 62?
(a) Food poisoning.
(b) He was wounded in an accident.
(c) He isn't ill, just guilt-ridden.
(d) The cholera.

Short Answer Questions

1. During dinner conversation outlined in Chapter 32, what aspect of London does Waddington discuss at length?

2. What does Kitty think of her first view from her window of the bungalow?

3. What does Waddington think of Dorothy?

4. What skill of Walter's does Kitty learn about from the nuns that surprises her?

5. How do the nuns regard Kitty's pregnancy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Waddington try and comfort Kitty about Walter's death?

2. How does Kitty describe her first impression of Waddington?

3. What are the first emotional hints that Kitty may be pregnant?

4. How does Kitty describe her first impression of Sister St. Joseph?

5. When Kitty asks Waddington about immortality, what is his response?

6. Why doesn't Kitty lie to Walter when he asks her if he is the father of the baby?

7. How does Waddington describe his religious views to Kitty?

8. How does Waddington describe Walter?

9. How does Kitty describe Waddington's Manchu mistress?

10. How does Kitty describe the city of Mei-tan-fu as she is carried to Walter's deathbed?

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