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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. Where do Mrs. Pollifax and Farrell hide from the guards during their escape?
(a) Under an overhang.
(b) Inside a cave.
(c) In the jungle.
(d) Behind a row of barracks.

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

3. Who does Mrs. Pollifax and Farrell take with them during their escape?
(a) A Chinese prisoner.
(b) Vassovic.
(c) General Hoong.
(d) Lulash.

4. When Mrs. Pollifax, Farrell and the Chinese man set off walking out of site of the compound, what do they believe to be walking toward?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Safety.
(c) Danger.
(d) Help.

5. Who takes Mrs. Pollifax for her daily walk?
(a) General Hoong.
(b) Perdido.
(c) Senor DeGamez.
(d) Lulash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does Adem tell MRs. Pollifax and Farrell to leave behind when they escape?

2. What becomes clear will be the fate of Farrell after his injuries?

3. Who fires a gun into the ceiling during Lulash and Vassovic's party?

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

5. What does Mrs. Pollifax steal from Adem?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mrs. Pollifax learn about Adem Nexht on her daily walk?

2. What does Mrs. Pollifax discover on her daily walk?

3. Discuss the cave the Chinese man finds in Chapter 20 and the purpose it serves.

4. Discuss the prisoner that Mrs. Pollifax learns of in Chapter 14.

5. How are Mrs. Pollifax, Farrell and the Chinese man rescued?

6. Discuss the encounter between Mrs. Pollifax and Mrs. Hartshorne when Mrs. Pollifax finally returns home at the end of the novel.

7. Discuss the things that happen at the party of Lulash and Vassovic.

8. What happens when the Chinese man arrives in a car he steals during his escape with Mrs. Pollifax and Farrell.

9. Discuss the plan of escape that Mrs. Pollifax, Farrell and the Chinese man use with the help of the woman who sees them escaping.

10. Discuss the "two miracles" Mrs. Pollifax manages to get.

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