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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who begins Section 3?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Rhoda.
(c) Susan.
(d) Louis.

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

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

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

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

6. Who hears "something stamping"?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Louis.
(c) Neville.
(d) Rhoda.

7. Why is one of the characters not permitted to go on the walk in Section 1?
(a) The character has to finish grammar exercises.
(b) The character is considered too sickly.
(c) The character has to go to the playing fields.
(d) The character has to picked up by an aunt.

8. What does Bernard describe during his first line of monologue?
(a) A spider's web.
(b) Fruity smells.
(c) A globe.
(d) An elephant.

9. What does Neville declare himself to be in Section 3?
(a) A lover.
(b) A poet.
(c) A philosopher.
(d) An historian.

10. In what city is Bernard in the beginning of Section 4?
(a) Liverpool.
(b) London.
(c) Leeds.
(d) Ipswich.

11. What are the boys doing when the monologues in Section 2 return to their perspective?
(a) Heading to classes.
(b) Going to chapel.
(c) Playing at recess.
(d) Walking to lunch.

12. Who arrives to pick up Rhoda at the end of Section 1?
(a) Miss Hudson.
(b) Her Aunt.
(c) Biddy.
(d) Percival.

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

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

15. In Section 3, what common action does Jinny find "strange"?
(a) Crying.
(b) Exercising.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Eating.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the female characters does Neville express respect for?

2. What is significant about what day it is at the end of Section 2?

3. Who is enamored with the light caused by Miss Lambert's ring?

4. Who remarks, "The world is entire, and I am outside of it . . ."?

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

(see the answer keys)

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