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

2. What does the condemned man come across on a dark and lonely highway?
(a) A Bible.
(b) A dead body.
(c) An abandoned dog.
(d) A felled tree.

3. What job has Vanessa acquired at the end of "Cross Currents"?
(a) A barmaid at a Russian pub.
(b) A kitchen staff position at the West End Club.
(c) A brothel mistress.
(d) A maid at the Carlton.

4. What kind of animal does the Baroness come across while on horseback?
(a) A boar.
(b) A lion.
(c) A cougar.
(d) A hyena.

5. In "Esme," what does Clovis state were all the same?
(a) Vacation stories.
(b) Love stories.
(c) Disaster stories.
(d) Hunting stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lives at Toad-Water?

2. When, according to Reginald in "Reginald on the Academy", does one go to Heaven prematurely?

3. Who does Sturridge "believe" Jane to be?

4. Who does the former farmer marry?

5. What is the name of the family who lose their child in "The Quest"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Reginald state as the estimable qualities of Jews?

2. Why does Clovis state that Hugo Peterby is at Mrs. Olston's home?

3. What problem does Vanessa Pennington have in "Cross Currents"?

4. According to "Reginald on Christmas Presents," why are aunts a "difficult class to deal with"?

5. Why is Mrs. Mullet unhappy that Mr Penricarde had purchased the Brogue?

6. According to the Baroness, in "Esme," what does poverty do?

7. What happens as a result of the feud in Toad-Water?

8. What does the condemned man state is the reality of his punishment?

9. What does Clovis do to insure that Jane has left before Dora shows up at his home?

10. What happens to cause a rift between Dora and Jane?

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