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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. Which of the following is NOT something that Murray's wife likes to do?
(a) Manage the resort.
(b) Play golf.
(c) Cook.
(d) Read.

2. Why did the man in #3 marry Ellie and not Flora?
(a) He got Ellie pregnant.
(b) Flora didn't love him anymore.
(c) Ellie had a bigger dowry.
(d) Flora didn't want to marry anyone.

3. Who does Almeda see slumped against her fence in the morning?
(a) A bum.
(b) A policeman.
(c) A woman.
(d) A child.

4. Which of the following does NOT describe Brenda's relationship with Neil?
(a) They are committed to each other.
(b) They meet in secret.
(c) They enjoy taking risks.
(d) They make no demands on each other.

5. What did the girl in #28 pay local boys to do?
(a) Have sex with her.
(b) Bring customers to the shop.
(c) Clean the shop windows.
(d) Sweep the shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Almeda's last name?

2. How did the family eventually lose their shop?

3. To whom had Flora once been engaged?

4. Hazel decides to travel to a town in which country?

5. What is Neil's answer when Brenda asks him if he ever took money from the girl at the sweets shop?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Neil tell Brenda about a Croatian girl named Mary who ran the family's sweet shop and how she destroyed the family's business?

2. What was the relationship between the narrator's mother, and Flora after the narrator's mother moved away to marry and start a family?

3. How did Flora try to mend the relationship with the narrator's mother, and what does the narrator think about how well she knew her own mother?

4. What is the theme of this story?

5. Who is Miss Dobie and what is her housekeeper, Judy's, reaction at seeing that Antoinette has driven Hazel instead of Dudley?

6. How did the generation gap separate the narrator and her mother and what conclusion does she come to regarding how well she knew her own mother?

7. Who was Victor and how did he come into Murray and Barbara's life?

8. What is the premise of "Meneseteung"?

9. Why has Hazel decided to travel to a town in Scotland and who does she meet right away when she arrives?

10. What does Brenda realize about her relationship with Neil after their first fight regarding the sweet shop girl?

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