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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 does Tony miss while he is drugged?
(a) A letter from Brenda.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The marriage of Mr. Todd and a village woman.
(d) The arrival and departure of a search party.

2. Who does Tony engage to start the divorce proceedings?
(a) His family's loyal retainer.
(b) No one; he's going to take care of it himself.
(c) His brother-in-law.
(d) Some seedy lawyers.

3. Who arrives first at the meeting point for Tony and Milly?
(a) Jock.
(b) Two detectives.
(c) Tony.
(d) Milly.

4. What strikes terror into Rosa's people?
(a) The battle cries of the Pie Wie all around them.
(b) An anaconda that is forty feet long.
(c) Tony's gun.
(d) A mechanical mouse Dr. Messinger shows them.

5. Who ends up going with Dr. Messinger and Tony?
(a) Rosa.
(b) No one.
(c) A group of the villagers.
(d) Ten men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Jock appalled at Brenda's response?

2. What does John Beaver ask his mother?

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

4. What would Brenda's increased demands mean?

5. What do Tony and Messinger do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Tony again entrusted his life to someone for whom that trust is not valid?

2. What happens after Brenda has written Tony and telling him about John Beaver?

3. How has John Beaver fared through the saga of Tony and Brenda's failed marriage?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What are the indications that Tony may still be plagued by a "curse" or bad luck?

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

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