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

2. What always stops Emily from giving her full attention to the children?
(a) Her husband
(b) Her work
(c) Illness
(d) Excuses

3. Who does Briony behead in the context of the story she is hastily crafting?
(a) Emily
(b) Ronnie
(c) Cecilia
(d) Lola

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

5. What is the unthinkable obscenity that the answer to question #52 utters?
(a) Homesick
(b) Hopelessness
(c) Divorce
(d) Cunt

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lola's relation to Briony?

2. Robbie the son of _________________.

3. What is the word Robbie adds in impulsively to the letter, although he decides he will not send that copy to Cecilia?

4. Who strips to his/her underwear to retrieve the broken piece?

5. To what time is play practice delayed causing Briony to be disappointed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Briony's reaction to her big brother when he approaches her?

2. What does Briony imagine is happening when she sees Robbie and Cecilia are out at the fountain?

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

4. What does Cecilia try to do in order to recover the appearance of the vase?

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

6. Why does Emily retreat to her bedroom each and every day?

7. Where does Briony imagine herself to be?

8. What has fallen into disrepair, according to the narrative in this section?

9. Who pronounces the unthinkable word, "divorce?"

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

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