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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 did Lucy long for more than anything as a child?
(a) A pony.
(b) A dog.
(c) A kitten.
(d) A brother.

2. When is the Bletchley Bletherings excerpt from that opens Chapter 40?
(a) June, 1943.
(b) June, 1947.
(c) June, 1942.
(d) June, 1941.

3. How old was Christopher turning on his birthday in Chapter 55?
(a) 14.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

4. How did Francis say his friend Arthur (from the photograph) had died in Chapter 36?
(a) Automobile accident.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Peritonitis.

5. What author had kicked up the MI-5 the previous year because their work had a spy named Colonel Bletchley in it?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Agatha Christie.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Chapter 37 set?

2. What did Osla give back to Philip in Chapter 57?

3. When is the excerpt from Bletchley Bletherings dated in the opening of Chapter 55?

4. Where did Harry take Beth to be alone in Chapter 41?

5. At what station did Osla meet Philip in Chapter 57?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Mike and how did Mab meet him?

2. Why does Osla return Philip's insignia in Chapter 57?

3. Why is Osla's relationship with Philip threatened in Chapter 38?

4. What secret of Mab's does Francis guess in Chapter 40? How does he respond to the secret?

5. What code of Dilly's does Beth begin working on in Chapter 52? Why?

6. How is Giles apprehended? What happens to him?

7. How does Beth escape Clockwell?

8. How are the Americans at BP described when they arrive?

9. How is Beth's confrontation with her father described in Chapter 52?

10. Why does Harry enlist in the armed services? How do Beth and Sheila respond?

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