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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which subject do the children appear to have a strong grasp of?
(a) Science.
(b) History.
(c) English Grammar.
(d) Mathematics.

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

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

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

5. Who is the first of the female speakers in Section 3?
(a) Jinny.
(b) Miss Lambert.
(c) Susan.
(d) Rhoda.

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

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

8. Who says, "Now let us issue from the darkness of solitude" at one point in Section 4?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Neville.
(c) Percival.
(d) Louis.

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

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

11. Who witnessed the kiss in the garden through a chink in the hedge in Section 1?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Neville.
(c) Jinny.
(d) Susan.

12. How does Rhoda characterize herself at the end of Section 3?
(a) As a fighter.
(b) As a woman.
(c) As a lover.
(d) As a girl.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the children doing as the novel begins?

3. What does Bernard acknowledge about his and the other boys' first night at school?

4. Who is the first character to speak?

5. How is the singing of the birds described in Section 3's opening?

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