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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Pollifax refuse to do involving her escape?
(a) Leave the Chinese prisoner behind.
(b) Take Farrell with her.
(c) Take the Chinese prisoner with her.
(d) Leave Farrell behind.

2. Who says their family has given them up for dead?
(a) Lulash.
(b) The Chinese man.
(c) Carstairs.
(d) Mrs. Pollifax.

3. What do Mrs. Pollifax, Farrell and the Chinese man intend to use as a raft?
(a) A floating box.
(b) A piece of plastic.
(c) A log.
(d) A tree branch.

4. What does Mrs. Pollifax drop through a prisoner's cell window?
(a) A peace of bread.
(b) A coin.
(c) A knife.
(d) A note.

5. Where do Mrs. Pollifax, Farrell and the Chinese man believe that the river will take them if they follow it?
(a) The Mediterannean Sea.
(b) The Atlantic Ocean.
(c) The Adriatic Sea.
(d) The Pacific Ocean.

6. What does Mrs. Pollifax plan to wrap in her petticoat to aid in her escape?
(a) Food.
(b) Horse hair.
(c) Bandages.
(d) Lamb fleece.

7. Who does Mrs. Pollifax find talking on a radio in Chapter 16?
(a) Adem.
(b) Lulash.
(c) Farrell.
(d) Vassovic.

8. Where does Mrs. Pollifax go when she returns to the United States?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Vermont.
(d) New Jersey.

9. Who says that they never trusted Adem?
(a) Lulash.
(b) Farrell.
(c) The Chinese prisoner.
(d) Mrs. Pollifax.

10. Who arrives in a car to help during the escape?
(a) Perdido.
(b) Lulash.
(c) Vassovic.
(d) The Chinese man.

11. What is tossed into Mrs. Pollifax's cell while she is out on her daily walk?
(a) A coin.
(b) Food.
(c) A book.
(d) A note.

12. What does Mrs. Pollifax look for during the party of Lulash and Vassovic?
(a) A knife.
(b) Bullets.
(c) An escape route.
(d) A map.

13. What does the Chinese man find that allows he, Mrs. Pollifax, and Farrell to aid in their escape?
(a) A tunnel.
(b) A cave.
(c) An abandoned shack.
(d) The woods.

14. Who learns there is a great deal of activity going on in the area of a lake near the Yugoslavian border?
(a) Lulash.
(b) Carstairs.
(c) Mrs. Pollifax.
(d) Farrell.

15. What becomes clear will be the fate of Farrell after his injuries?
(a) He will have splints for the rest of his life.
(b) He will be crippled for the rest of his life.
(c) He will live.
(d) He will die.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Pollifax hear during her morning walk in Chapter 16?

2. Who steals General Hoong's gun?

3. When Mrs. Pollifax, Farrell and the Chinese man are picked up for rescue, who does Mrs. Pollifax contact?

4. Who is planning a party?

5. Who almost shoots the Chinese man?

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