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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 Claudia recall to be her grade on her final history exam in school?
(a) 99 percent.
(b) 100 percent plus 25 points extra credit.
(c) 38 percent.
(d) 13 percent.

2. What was a "Matilda?"
(a) A local burger special.
(b) A bomb.
(c) A drink.
(d) A girl.

3. Who says that refusing to believe in destiny is mere self-indulgence?
(a) Lisa.
(b) Gordon.
(c) Sylvia.
(d) Claudia.

4. What gift does Claudia receive in the desert?
(a) A gecko fossil.
(b) A cactus flower.
(c) A cactus.
(d) A fossilized starfish.

5. What does Lisa admire about her mother?
(a) Her business sense.
(b) Her sense of humor.
(c) Her fingernails.
(d) Her coyness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gordon teach?

2. As a war correspondent, whom does Claudia travel with?

3. How many soldiers were discovered wounded at the armored car wreckage?

4. In what town does Harry live?

5. Who says the flower Claudia receives in the hospital is delicate?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jasper.

2. In Chapter 8, how does Claudia juggle her work schedule when she spends time with Tom during his leave?

3. Discuss Claudia's relationship with her roommate in Chapter 7.

4. What is ironic about the hippos Claudia and Tom see in the Cairo Zoo?

5. How does Gordon react when his wife storms away from the marketplace in Chapter 3?

6. What is Tom's view of the war, as the reader learns in Chapter 8?

7. What is the illness Claudia contracts in Chapter 7, and how is it transmitted?

8. What is unique about Claudia's job in Cairo?

9. What is Claudia's view of religion?

10. What does Tom put inside the ring he gives Claudia in Chapter 8?

(see the answer keys)

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