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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. During the war, where did Lalla open up a boarding house?
(a) Nuwara Eliya.
(b) Kandy.
(c) Kegalle.
(d) Colombo.
2. What disease did one of Rene's cows catch?
(a) Milk fever.
(b) Rinderpest fever.
(c) Mad cow disease.
(d) Anthrax.
3. When Michael went back to Ceylon and the tea estate, how many years had it been since his mother had been to the tea estate?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 35 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 40 years.
4. How much of a dowry did the woman have that Lalla tried to get her brother to marry?
(a) 40,000 rupees.
(b) 20,000 rupees.
(c) 30,000 rupees.
(d) 50,000 rupees.
5. How far was the car from the house when it stalled?
(a) 1/2 mile.
(b) 1 mile.
(c) 2 miles.
(d) 1/4 mile.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Willie first attempt to raise when he lived at Palm Lodge?
2. What was the name of the house where the Daniels lived?
3. When was Mervyn banned from the Ceylon Railways?
4. What costume did Doris wear to the Galle Face Dance?
5. What game did Michael play with Susan and her husband during a thunderstorm on the tea estate?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Lalla come to Kuttapitiya when Michael and his family lived there?
2. What did it take to build a road from Colombo to Kandy?
3. What did Rene de Saram do when one of her cows caught Rinderpest fever?
4. When Mervyn was in his twenties, why did he stop a train ten miles out of Colombo?
5. Michael recorded sounds of the night in the jungle when he was in Ceylon. What did he hear when he played the tape back in Canada?
6. Why was it thought that Rene de Saram's husband was the victim of someone's charm?
7. How did Michael get a bath when he was five and attending a boarding school?
8. What was Michael's mother doing when David Grenier drowned?
9. What did Doris love about Mervyn, even after the divorce?
10. What did Doris do when she was leaving Mervyn and he threw the car key into the tea bushes?
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