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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which character closes Section 2?
(a) Percival.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Neville.
(d) Louis.

3. Who takes the children for a "brisk walk"?
(a) Miss Hudson.
(b) Biddy.
(c) Mis Curry.
(d) Mrs. Constable.

4. To what does the narrator compare the sound of the waves at the end of Section 3's beginning?
(a) Turbaned warriors.
(b) British infantry.
(c) Roman soldiers.
(d) Mongol hordes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kissed Louis in the garden?

2. Who witnessed the kiss in the garden through a chink in the hedge in Section 1?

3. What are the boys doing when the monologues in Section 2 return to their perspective?

4. What is all that Neville possesses?

5. What is Susan doing when she begins her major monologue in Section 3?

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