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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first speaker musing on at the beginning of Section 3?
(a) Whether there is an afterlife.
(b) Classical poets.
(c) The nature of identity.
(d) The form of waves.

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

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

4. In Section 4, how would you characterize the characters' attitude towards each other?
(a) Elation.
(b) Generally negative.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Mostly favorable.

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

6. Who is the first character to speak?
(a) Louis.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Jinny.
(d) Rhoda.

7. What does Bernard acknowledge about his and the other boys' first night at school?
(a) That it is the first time sleeping in a new place.
(b) That it is the first time apart from their parents.
(c) That it is the first time apart from their sisters.
(d) That it is the first time far from home.

8. Who is enamored with the light caused by Miss Lambert's ring?
(a) Biddy.
(b) Susan.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Jinny.

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

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

11. Who is primarily focused on appearances early in Section 2?
(a) Jinny.
(b) Susan.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Louis.

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

13. Which of the female characters seems most content with her place in life when the reader encounters her in Section 3?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Miss Lambert.
(c) Jinny.
(d) Susan.

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

15. Who kissed Louis in the garden?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Susan.
(c) Biddy.
(d) Jinny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Rhoda in Section 1 that someone has arrived to pick her up?

2. Who utters Section 4's final words, "Now Percival is gone"?

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

4. How would you characterize Neville's attitude as he waits for the others to arrive in Section 4?

5. What does the italicized prose at the beginning of the first section describe?

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