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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 Pompey soak the handkerchief in?
(a) Water.
(b) Acid.
(c) Ether.
(d) Alcohol.

2. What is the Sweet Waters of Europe?
(a) A Turkish resort.
(b) A Turkish baths.
(c) A Turkish restaurant.
(d) A Turkish hotel.

3. What is located on Myrtle Street?
(a) A hospital.
(b) An orphanage.
(c) A steel factory.
(d) A work house.

4. What does Master Georgie study at university?
(a) Literature.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Mathematics.

5. How does Rimmer try to get the ape to turn around?
(a) He whistles to it.
(b) He gives it a bannana.
(c) He slaps it.
(d) He sings to it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Myrtle say are embossed on Mr. Hardy's white toes?

2. What kind of illness do the three doctors at Varna have?

3. What does George do at the palace at the end of the day?

4. What is the name of the novel's twelve-year-old orphan?

5. What does Pompey Jones switch the Persian rug with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does George cover up his father's death?

2. What is Myrtle's life like with the Hardy family?

3. How does Myrtle show her vulnerability in the third chapter?

4. What does the group experience aboard the boat?

5. Summarize the first chapter.

6. How does the author express Myrtle's role as an outsider?

7. How does the Hardy family like society to see it?

8. Where does Myrtle follow George in this chapter?

9. How does George's attitude change once he is in Constantnople?

10. How do Rimmer, George and Pompey get the ape to turn around so they can take its photograph?

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