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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the boys doing when the monologues in Section 2 return to their perspective?
(a) Playing at recess.
(b) Heading to classes.
(c) Going to chapel.
(d) Walking to lunch.

2. What does the italicized prose at the beginning of the first section describe?
(a) A day yet to begin.
(b) The sun at midday.
(c) The moon rising in the sky.
(d) The clouds covering the sun.

3. What are the children doing as the novel begins?
(a) Playing in the garden.
(b) Saying grace before dinner.
(c) Waking up.
(d) Going to bed.

4. What does Neville declare himself to be in Section 3?
(a) A philosopher.
(b) A lover.
(c) A poet.
(d) An historian.

5. What is Bernard doing at the beginning of Section 3?
(a) Meeting Susan.
(b) Writing a letter.
(c) Talking to Percival.
(d) Eating dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the children struggles with mathematics?

2. Who does Bernard refer to as a "drunken sailor?"

3. Who is picking flowers alone in the novel's first section?

4. Who decides to "put off my hopeless desire to be Susan, to be Jinny"?

5. Who tells Rhoda in Section 1 that someone has arrived to pick her up?

(see the answer key)

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