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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the dominant image in the beginning of Section 2?
(a) Waves on the beach as the sun rises.
(b) The sun at mid-point in the sky.
(c) The sun setting.
(d) A silent forest.

2. Who is not permitted to go on the walk?
(a) Jinny.
(b) Susan.
(c) Louis.
(d) Neville.

3. Which of the girls is first to speak in Section 2?
(a) Jinny.
(b) Rhoda.
(c) Miss Lambert.
(d) Susan.

4. What physical feature does Rhoda struggle to identify on others?
(a) The hands.
(b) The eyes.
(c) The posture.
(d) The face.

5. What "ceremony" does Bernard dislike so much?
(a) Celebrating holidays.
(b) Going to school.
(c) Having a family dinner.
(d) Formal farewells.

6. What is the name of the cook at school?
(a) Miss Lambert.
(b) Miss Hudson.
(c) Miss Curry.
(d) Biddy.

7. Who did Bernard seek to comfort during Section 1?
(a) Susan.
(b) Neville.
(c) Louis.
(d) Jinny.

8. Who does Bernard refer to as a "drunken sailor?"
(a) Dr. Crane.
(b) Percival.
(c) Louis.
(d) Neville.

9. Who professes, without reservation, "Life will divide us"?
(a) Percival.
(b) Neville.
(c) Louis.
(d) Bernard.

10. To which poet does Bernard compare himself to the point of attempting imitation in Section 3?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(c) John Keats.
(d) Robert Burns.

11. Who asserts, "The words of authority are corrupted by those who speak them"?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Percival.
(c) Neville.
(d) Louis.

12. How does Rhoda react to the party in Section 3?
(a) She is bored and disinterested.
(b) She is nauseous and delirious.
(c) She is scared and nervous.
(d) She is excited and confident.

13. Who refers to "sudden kisses" as a "crudity"?
(a) Susan.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Louis.
(d) Neville.

14. Who asserts, "One moment does not lead to another" in Section 4?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Susan.
(c) Bernard.
(d) Jinny.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the boys' headmaster?

2. What is all that Neville possesses?

3. What significant fact does the reader learn about Bernard's life early in Section 4?

4. Which subject do the children appear to have a strong grasp of?

5. What do the characters do upon Percival's arrival in Section 4?

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