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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Duchess preparing notes on to speak about at the Club?
(a) Life.
(b) Modern travel.
(c) Raising proper children.
(d) Modern warfare.

2. What is the name of the family who lose their child in "The Quest"?
(a) Momeby.
(b) Calves.
(c) Elsinore.
(d) Summerset.

3. When, according to Reginald in "Reginald on the Academy", does one go to Heaven prematurely?
(a) When one fails to escape.
(b) When the Sargent has not painted you yet.
(c) When the book has not been signed.
(d) When one has not yet become a man.

4. Who does Marion Eggelby state that Clovis would like (one of her children)?
(a) Eric.
(b) David.
(c) Seth.
(d) Brian.

5. For how many years has the galleon laid in semi-retirement?
(a) 325 years.
(b) 250 years.
(c) 500 years.
(d) 125 years.

6. Where is Reginald sitting at the opening of "Reginald in Russia"?
(a) A Princess's salon.
(b) Mozart's Bistro.
(c) The Emperor's Station.
(d) A Princess's library.

7. What does Reginald threaten the narrator with, for being rude, in "Reginald on the Academy"?
(a) To cause a scene at dinner.
(b) To buy them a tie for Christmas.
(c) To leave and never come back.
(d) To dine with them the following night.

8. Who does the former farmer marry?
(a) A madame of a brothel.
(b) His best friend's daughter.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) A lion-tamer's widow.

9. What present does Reginald not want at all for Christmas?
(a) A tie.
(b) A waist-coat.
(c) Shoes.
(d) A Prayer-book.

10. Over how many countries is the condemned man sought?
(a) 13.
(b) 2.
(c) 25.
(d) 5.

11. What is tied up as bait for a tiger?
(a) A chicken.
(b) Three rabbits.
(c) A fox.
(d) A goat.

12. What is Mr. Lammer's one ruling passion?
(a) Woman watching.
(b) Egg-collecting.
(c) Buzzard watching.
(d) Breeding horses.

13. What poetic device does Reginald use in the first line of his poem on peace?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Metaphors.
(d) Personification.

14. Who asks Clovis if he was a matchmaker?
(a) Hugo Peterby.
(b) Michael Drund.
(c) Walter Mitty.
(d) Victor Franz.

15. What does Clovis believe to be "more beautiful than any religion"?
(a) Merlot.
(b) Oysters.
(c) Homer.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What invention does the Duchess believe to be the key to the recovery of the sunken treasure?

2. How many hands tall is the Brogue?

3. Who does "the Other" quote, in "Reginald's Peace Poem", when they stated "I agree with you"?

4. In "Esme," what does Clovis state were all the same?

5. How many miles do the children at Toad-Water have to walk to school?

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