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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What significant fact does the reader learn about Bernard's life early in Section 4?
(a) He is on his way to a funeral.
(b) He is dying.
(c) He is engaged to be married.
(d) He has become famous.

2. How did the character who witnesses the kiss in Section 1 react to it?
(a) With joy and excitement.
(b) With fear and despair.
(c) By also trying to kiss Louis.
(d) With anger and confusion.

3. Who refers to all the happenings as "scuffling and hubbub"?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Louis.
(c) Neville.
(d) Bernard.

4. Who is this Section 4's opening speaker?
(a) Jinny.
(b) Louis.
(c) Percival.
(d) Bernard.

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

6. What do the characters do upon Percival's arrival in Section 4?
(a) Fall silent.
(b) Stand to greet him.
(c) Stand and leave.
(d) Immediately begin recalling the past.

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

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

9. What word best describes Rhoda's tone in Section 1?
(a) Despairing.
(b) Neurotic.
(c) Pleased.
(d) Excited.

10. Who decides to "put off my hopeless desire to be Susan, to be Jinny"?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Mrs. Constable.
(c) Biddy.
(d) Jinny.

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

12. How old is Rhoda in Section 3?
(a) Almost 15.
(b) Not yet 21.
(c) Just turned 25.
(d) Just turned 19.

13. How does Wolfe describe the birds' song at the beginning of the first section?
(a) "Like the chiming of bells."
(b) "A blank melody outside."
(c) "A disruptive cacophony."
(d) "Barely audible."

14. What is Susan doing when she begins her major monologue in Section 3?
(a) Walking in the early morning.
(b) Walking through London.
(c) Meeting Jinny and Rhoda.
(d) Going to sleep.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why have the characters gathered in Section 4?

2. Who is fond of the "orderly progress" exhibited by the schoolboys?

3. Who "only understands cries of love, hate, rage and pain"?

4. What is Louis doing upon the commencement of his major monologue in Section 3?

5. What makes Jinny feel "native" in her environment?

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