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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ugly image accompanies the description of the cemetery and graves?
(a) The creeping jasmine and orange-hearted flowers.
(b) The gravestones of sixteen Europeans.
(c) The white headstones and neatly trimmed graves.
(d) The rat holes leading down into the graves.

2. Why does Verrall enter the Burma Military Police?
(a) He is running from the law in England.
(b) He has enormous debts to pay.
(c) He has no other training or prospects.
(d) He needs to escape from a woman.

3. What "sacrifice" does Mrs. Lackersteen make for Elizabeth?
(a) She agrees to stay behind with Elizabeth as Lackersteen returns to the jungle.
(b) She offers to find Elizabeth a husband back in England.
(c) She gives Elizabeth money to make herself a more appealing catch.
(d) She allows Elizabeth to choose for herself between Flory and Verrall.

4. What causes the Englishmen to feel envy for Verrall?
(a) Verrall is destined for a happy marriage.
(b) Verrall has a spotless reputation with officers and creditors.
(c) Verrall is extremely wealthy.
(d) Verrall dances with Elizabeth at the Club.

5. How does Flory feel next to Verrall?
(a) Wise and experienced
(b) Young and vibrant
(c) Old and shabby
(d) Poor and ignorant

6. What does Flory's conviction to stand by Veraswami cause him to feel?
(a) Courage and exhilaration
(b) Guilt and self-loathing
(c) Panic
(d) Fear and resentment

7. How does Elizabeth thwarts Lackersteen's attempts at rape?
(a) Threatening to tell the police
(b) Threatening to leave at once
(c) Threatening to marray Flory
(d) Threatening to tell Mrs. Lackersteen

8. Elizabeth is most excited when she learns ____________________________.
(a) Flory plans to propose to her at the Club later.
(b) she may be able to hunt a leopard.
(c) Flory wants her to return to the headman's house.
(d) she may be able to hunt a dog.

9. What does Mrs. Lackersteen plan to do at the end of Chapter 23?
(a) Invite Flory to dinner in order to court Elizabeth again
(b) Invite Flory to dinner in order to let him down gently
(c) Invite Macgregor to dinner in order to court Elizabeth
(d) Invite Verrall to dinner in order to question him about marriage

10. Killing the leopard has created what feeling between Flory and Elizabeth?
(a) Disgust
(b) Fear
(c) Intimacy
(d) Pity

11. Who greets Flory and Elizabeth when they go ashore?
(a) The village headman
(b) Ko S'la
(c) Ellis
(d) The Eurasians

12. What does the Chinese child do that upsets Elizabeth?
(a) Wants her to hold him
(b) Cries upon seeing her
(c) Wets himself on the floor
(d) Climbs up on to her lap

13. At the end of Chapter 22, what signals a change?
(a) The English have returned to their camps.
(b) The rain has finally stopped.
(c) The river has overflowed.
(d) The rain has finally started.

14. Flory visits Veraswami in order to _______________________________.
(a) apologize for neglecting to introduce him to Elizabeth.
(b) accuse him of the crimes mentioned in U Po Kyin's letters.
(c) apologize for signing the notice against him.
(d) inform him they are no longer friends.

15. What causes Verrall to speak to Elizabeth and Mrs. Lackersteen?
(a) They approach him and he cannot escape them.
(b) He notices Elizabeth's beauty from a distance.
(c) They approach him and he is delighted to speak to them.
(d) Mrs. Lackersteen invites him to dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. The earthquake inspires what kind of feeling in the members of the Club after it is over?

2. When Lackersteen invites Verrall to the Club, __________________________.

3. Verrall's attitude toward women suggests __________________________.

4. Flory is convinced he is ______________________.

5. Although Verrall often offends people, ____________________________.

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