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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Margery teaching her students at the start of Chapter 2?
(a) How to dress nicely for your husband.
(b) How to sew tattered clothing.
(c) How to make cake during wartime.
(d) How to clean floors.

2. What does Mundic begin to do after his first meeting with Margery?
(a) Follow her.
(b) Send her flowers every week.
(c) Ignore her.
(d) Write her letters.

3. What does the letter Margery finds under her door in Chapter 3 from her school say?
(a) She can have her job back if she returns the boots.
(b) They understand her stress and would like to help.
(c) The police have been notified of her theft.
(d) She can come back to work when she is ready.

4. What does Enid have with her when Mundic follows her in Aden?
(a) Margery's passport.
(b) British newspapers.
(c) Someone else's suitcase.
(d) A wad of cash.

5. What is Enid's real name?
(a) Noelle Colbert.
(b) Nadia Coleman.
(c) Nancy Collett.
(d) Nicole Colter.

6. What do Enid's neighbors do five weeks after she left Britain?
(a) Steal her things.
(b) Try to find her.
(c) Take up a collection to bring her home.
(d) Call the cops.

7. What initials are on Enid's red valise before she covers them with a Band-Aid?
(a) N.C.
(b) M.M.
(c) E.P.
(d) M.B.

8. What is the third problem Margery encounters when they arrive in Noumea in Chapter 18?
(a) Her luggage has been lost.
(b) She forgot why she was there.
(c) She falls ill.
(d) She and Enid get lost.

9. What does Enid tell Margery when she returns after her fall down the stairs in Chapter 12?
(a) She was worried sick about her.
(b) Mundic came to her room.
(c) She thinks she miscarried.
(d) She wants to go home.

10. What does Enid wear while she cleans the bungalow in Chapter 25?
(a) Just her undies.
(b) A French maid uniform.
(c) Margery's best frock.
(d) A leopard print bikini.

11. What does Margery confess to Enid on the flying boat to New Caledonia in Chapter 17?
(a) She does not think the golden beetle is real.
(b) She does not work for the Natural History Museum.
(c) She has no money.
(d) She wants to fire Enid.

12. Why does Miss Hamilton ultimately refuse Margery's job offer?
(a) She thought the expedition seemed ridiculous.
(b) She got sick.
(c) She was unable to get a passport in time.
(d) She learned what Margery did at the school.

13. What does Enid do after Margery's lost luggage is not found in Chapter 19?
(a) She tells Margery they should go home.
(b) She leaves and finds all the equipment Margery needs.
(c) She goes directly to the airline and threatens them.
(d) She purchases Margery all new equipment.

14. What do Enid's letters to Margery always include?
(a) Lipstick marks.
(b) Parts of a grocery shopping list.
(c) Silly drawings.
(d) Her weekly budget.

15. What clothing item does Margery steal before leaving the school the day students passed a note with a drawing of her on it?
(a) The principal's jacket.
(b) Lacrosse boots.
(c) A school uniform.
(d) A student's hat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had Mundic been home from Burma, according to the beginning of Chapter 6?

2. What does Margery learn at the garden party was recently stolen from the Catholic School?

3. Why do the boiler men who find Mundic decide not to turn him in and help him stay on the ship instead?

4. What does Margery tell Enid Pretty to avoid packing when she writes her a letter offering her the job?

5. Where are Margery and Enid invited to at the end of Chapter 19?

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