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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character's profession is in banking, something which is dull and uninspiring to them?
(a) Leon
(b) Cecilia
(c) Marshall
(d) Robbie

2. What university do Cecilia and Robbie both attend?
(a) Wellingston
(b) Oxford
(c) Cambridge
(d) Dartmouth

3. While Briony is sick of being outdoors, she is not ready to ________.
(a) Write
(b) Be indoors
(c) Eat dinner
(d) Leave her fantasy land

4. What does Cecilia want to have when she starts to think of Robbie?
(a) Tissue
(b) An excuse to miss dinner
(c) A flower
(d) Cigarette

5. What does Lola laugh with when she is called to her bath time with her brothers?
(a) A mouth of cola
(b) Green candy
(c) Pink candy
(d) Her hands over her mouth

6. What does Cecilia say to Briony when she would have nightmares? "________. It's only a dream."
(a) Quiet darling.
(b) Come back
(c) Shhh.
(d) Calm down

7. Where does Robbie want to go, with the help of the money of Jack Tallis?
(a) Medical school
(b) Engineering classes
(c) Live a carefree life
(d) Europe

8. What does Cecila prepare to help brighten up the room of the guest who is arriving soon?
(a) The bathroom
(b) A small basket of soaps
(c) The bedspread
(d) A vase of flowers

9. Who is the older sister of Emily that she describes as precocious and scheming?
(a) Cecilia
(b) Hermione
(c) Randalia
(d) Arabella

10. Where does Briony want to hold the practice for the play at the start of this novel?
(a) Fountain
(b) Nursery
(c) Library
(d) Backyard

11. How might Lola and her twin brothers be described at this point of the story?
(a) Happy as can be
(b) Worried about Briony
(c) Excited to be in the play
(d) Homesick

12. What is Briony freed from when she writes a play, much to her delight?
(a) The "She saids"
(b) Good spelling
(c) Grammar
(d) Full sentences

13. What does Cecilia see Briony doing from the window of the guest room?
(a) Talking to Robbie
(b) Dancing in the fountain
(c) Writing a letter
(d) Crossing the bridge

14. What is also attacked for wasting Briony's time, as she criticizes herself?
(a) Lola
(b) Playwriting
(c) The vase
(d) Marshall

15. Who does Briony sacrifice in her story, declaring them to be incompetent actors?
(a) The nettles
(b) The men
(c) The women
(d) The twins

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of the Tallis family is coming home, hence Briony's preoccupation with writing the play for this particular person's celebration?

2. Who does Briony behead in the context of the story she is hastily crafting?

3. Where does Briony see Robbie and Cecilia talking?

4. What breaks when Robbie and Cecilia argue over who will help with filling it?

5. Who is the friend of Cecilia's brother that is coming to visit?

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