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

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

3. What does Enid name the stray dog that begins to follow her and Margery around Noumea in Chapter 18?
(a) Mr. Pup.
(b) Mr. Pickles.
(c) Mr. Rawlings.
(d) Mr. Mundic.

4. What does Mr. Mundic say they will find in New Caledonia which makes Margery laugh?
(a) Tigers.
(b) Octopi.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Frogs.

5. What does the note students pass in Margery's class say under the cartoon image of Margery?
(a) Margery the Misfit.
(b) The Virgin Margery!
(c) Holy Margery!
(d) Margery the Mad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enid buy in Aden, which Mundic finds suspicious in Chapter 11?

2. What does Enid tell Margery just three days before they arrive in Brisbane?

3. What does Margery immerse herself in more after her mother's death?

4. Who does Margery write to requesting funding for her expedition?

5. What do Enid's neighbors do five weeks after she left Britain?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Margery learn that Enid stole the old army jeep they are driving in Chapter 23?

2. Chapter 22 describes how information on Nancy Collett was all over the British newspapers. What information do they have so far about Nancy and her accomplice?

3. Describe the note Margery's students are passing around during her domestic science class in Chapter 2.

4. What happens in their cabin on the boat that makes Margery decide she does not trust Enid and will find a new assistant?

5. How are Enid and Margery's experiences different during their first weeks on the ship?

6. Why was Enid's husband unable to go to war despite having gone to military training?

7. Why do Enid and Margery have to sleep in their jeep the first day they arrive in Poum?

8. What are the four problems Margery encounters when they first arrive at New Caledonia in Chapter 18?

9. What news does Margery's father receive after showing her the golden beetle and what does he do in response?

10. How does Margery ultimately realize her brother's died in 1914?

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