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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Pollifax believe will make up for not bringing Carstairs the package?

2. What does the woman who sees Mrs. Pollifax, Farrell and the Chinese man escaping do for them?

3. What does Mrs. Pollifax realize she and the others are working as during their escape?

4. Who does Mrs. Pollifax reassure that she is fine at the end of the novel?

5. What is loaded in the cart that Mrs. Pollifax, Farrell and the Chinese man find during their escape?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the arrival of General Hoong at the party of Lulash and Vassovic.

2. Who is Halstead and whom does he recognize in Chapter 22?

3. Discuss the note that is dropped into Mrs. Pollifax's cell while she is on her morning walk.

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

5. What happens when Farrell tells Mrs. Pollifax to leave him behind when she escapes?

6. Discuss the escape plan of Mrs. Pollifax and Farrell in Chapter 15.

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

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

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

10. What does Mrs. Pollifax learn from Carstairs involving Senor DeGamez in Chapter 23?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the narration of the novel and whether readers can trust the narrator(s).

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the relationship Mrs. Pollifax has with her children and the effect it has on the story.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss and describe the use of character descriptions and the positive and negative effect they have on readers as well as the novel.

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