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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the singing of the birds described in Section 3's opening?
(a) Ominous.
(b) Cacophonous.
(c) Silent.
(d) Harmonious.

2. What is Louis's profession when the reader encounters him in Section 3?
(a) Banker.
(b) Poet.
(c) Clerk.
(d) Chef.

3. How does Bernard characterize his last day at school?
(a) An occasion for laughter.
(b) An occasion for tears.
(c) One final ceremony.
(d) As ambiguous in significance.

4. What is significant about what day it is at the end of Section 2?
(a) It is the last day of the boys' first term at school.
(b) It is the last day of summer.
(c) It is the boys' last day at school.
(d) It is the boys' first day of their second year at school.

5. Who is picking flowers alone in the novel's first section?
(a) Jinny.
(b) Louis.
(c) Susan.
(d) Rhoda.

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

7. Who remarks, "The world is entire, and I am outside of it . . ."?
(a) Neville.
(b) Rhoda.
(c) Jinny.
(d) Bernard.

8. How would you characterize Neville's attitude as he waits for the others to arrive in Section 4?
(a) Impatient.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Agitated.
(d) Calm.

9. What word does Louis use to characterize himself in Section 3?
(a) Banal.
(b) Extraordinary.
(c) Average.
(d) Loquacious.

10. Which of the characters muses on a book that he wishes to keep when he is older?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Neville.
(d) Susan.

11. Who shifts in his seat in Section 2 so that he might catch a glimpse of Percival?
(a) Neville.
(b) Dr. Crane.
(c) Louis.
(d) Bernard.

12. Which of the children struggles with mathematics?
(a) Louis.
(b) Neville.
(c) Susan.
(d) Rhoda.

13. Who instigated the kiss in the garden?
(a) Louis.
(b) Jinny.
(c) Susan.
(d) Bernard.

14. With what is Neville most unhappy as he appears in Section 4?
(a) That Percival has not yet arrived.
(b) That his food is cold.
(c) That Susan does not love him as he loves her.
(d) That Bernard is rude to him.

15. In Section 2, Miss Lambert sits under a picture of whom?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) Queen Alexandra.
(c) King James I.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who hears "something stamping"?

2. How does Rhoda react to the party in Section 3?

3. Who repeats variations of the phrase, "I will gather my flowers and present them--Oh! to whom?"

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

5. Who says, "Now let us issue from the darkness of solitude" at one point in Section 4?

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