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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. In Robbie's office, there is a photograph of __________ celebrating their honeymoon.
(a) Cecilia's parents
(b) His parents
(c) Leon and Lola
(d) His friends

2. What is the problem, Briony finally decides, in regards to the play she wants to stage?
(a) Lola
(b) The play itself
(c) The twins
(d) The costumes

3. With what degree has Robbie graduated from university?
(a) Biology
(b) Mathematics
(c) History
(d) Literature

4. Robbie knows he must speak to Cecilia about his feelings before she _________.
(a) Tells her father
(b) Tells someone else
(c) Goes away
(d) Finds someone else

5. Where does Briony see Robbie and Cecilia talking?
(a) Kitchen
(b) Fountain
(c) Nursery
(d) Library

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Cecilia want to avoid in the kitchen, causing her to have to go to the fountain for water?

2. What is also attacked for wasting Briony's time, as she criticizes herself?

3. How many strokes of nettles does it take for Briony to be free of her show-off years and reliance on her mother's good opinion?

4. What is all that remains of the surprising scene to which Briony is a witness?

5. What does Briony think Robbie is asking Cecilia to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lola ask of Marshall in as grown-up a manner as she can muster?

2. What does Cecilia do in order to brighten up the guestroom for Paul Marshall, a friend of her brother's?

3. What is Robbie thinking of as he soaks in a bathtub?

4. What is wrong with the play, according to Briony?

5. What are some of the things that Robbie's tiny office contains?

6. Why does Cecilia not go to the kitchen to fill up the vase with water?

7. Why does Briony want to prepare her play to be seen by others?

8. What does Lola see through the window of an unused bedroom?

9. What does Briony do as she constructs yet another story?

10. What do the children do in response to Emily because her illness stops Emily from giving her children a mother's attention?

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