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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is hard for Tony?
(a) Knowing that Brenda is being unfaithful, only willingly.
(b) Seeing the way Winnie is abused.
(c) Not actually having sex with Milly, who is quite attractive.
(d) Finding a topic for conversation with Milly.

2. Where are Tony and Milly going?
(a) To the Riviera.
(b) To the seashore in Brighton.
(c) To a seedy motel in Essex.
(d) To Paris.

3. What propels Tony to start a dialog with Brenda?
(a) A letter from Jock.
(b) His grief about John Andrew.
(c) A letter from John Beaver.
(d) Nothing in particular.

4. About what does Mr. Todd become evasive?
(a) Who Mr. Todd really is.
(b) How Messinger dies.
(c) Why he is there.
(d) Helping Tony leave.

5. What is Brenda trying to get?
(a) Money out of Tony's estate.
(b) Money from John Beaver.
(c) Money from Mrs. Beave.
(d) Money from Reggie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Milly going to meet Tony?

2. Why does the young woman become unfriendly to Tony?

3. Who does Tony engage to start the divorce proceedings?

4. How does Tony feel during his travels upstream in a small boat.

5. What are the legal ramifications of John Andrew's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Messigner and Tony decide to do and do you think they make the best choice?

2. Why do you think Tony decides to go away for awhile?

3. What seems to be contrasted in this chapter?

4. Why does Tony have to appear to be in the wrong?

5. What seems most important to Tony as he lies possibly dying and alone?

6. What is the symbolic significance of the first book that Tony reads?

7. How does Tony finally take some of his own personal power back and take charge of his destiny?

8. How long is it before Tony and Messinger are able to talk to the men of the village about what they want?

9. What is Tony's position in Brenda's social circle by the end of this chapter?

10. What is rather ironic about how divorce is treated in this era?

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