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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 Ma Kin tell her husband about happiness?
(a) Happiness is not in power.
(b) Happiness comes from the heart.
(c) Happiness escapes those who do evil.
(d) Happiness is not in money.

2. What does Lackersteen almost reveal about Ma Hla May?
(a) That she is jealous of Elizabeth.
(b) That she is Flory's mistress.
(c) That she is Burmese.
(d) That she refuses to do laundry.

3. Why is Flory ashamed of himself?
(a) He throws Ma Hla May out of the house.
(b) He stays home instead of joining the others at the club.
(c) He shoots the dog in cold blood.
(d) He signs a slanderous notice against Veraswami.

4. Flory's resolve to shoot the dog results in __________________________.
(a) a solution to his problems.
(b) his resolve to stand up for Veraswami.
(c) a wasted effort, ultimately ineffective.
(d) his ability to see events more clearly.

5. The village girl that visits that morning claims ____________________________.
(a) that she does not have enough bribe money.
(b) that she has a newspaper article U Po Kyin will want to see.
(c) that she is U Po Kyin's daughter.
(d) that U Po Kyin is the father of her child.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose arrival confirms Veraswami's views about the Burmese?

2. Flory's greatest misery is ______________________.

3. Ellis warns Flory that ________________________________.

4. How does MacGregor start his day?

5. Why do the servants threaten to leave if Flory marries a European woman?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Flory get rid of Ma Hla May?

2. Why did Flory end up in Burma?

3. What does the interview in Westfield's office reveal about the native Burmese who work for the police?

4. Why are the English men upset over the article in the Burmese Patriot?

5. Describe the European Club.

6. Why does Flory's sudden church attendance concern Ko S'la?

7. What is U Po Kyin's plan against Dr. Veraswami?

8. Why is Flory so lonely?

9. What has Elizabeth's life been like in Paris?

10. Why do Flory and Veraswami continue to have the same argument each time they meet?

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