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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. How old was Michael's mother when David Grenier died?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 11.
2. In one of the stories about Mervyn's train escapade, how many dogs was he leading on ropes?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.
3. How long did it take Michael, Susan, and her husband to drive from Colombo to the tea estate?
(a) 4 hours.
(b) 5 hours.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) 6 hours.
4. Where did Doris hold her breath and faint so that Mervyn would have to stop drinking?
(a) Ambepussa resthouse.
(b) Dambulla resthouse.
(c) Kitulgala resthouse.
(d) Tissamaharama resthouse.
5. Where did Lalla claim she was born?
(a) On the beach.
(b) During a dinner party.
(c) During a storm.
(d) During a picnic.
Short Answer Questions
1. As a teen, what song did Michael dance disgracefully to with girls?
2. During the war, where did Lalla open up a boarding house?
3. How much did Michael's Aunt Dolly weigh?
4. How old was the English officer who was ordered to build a road from Colombo to Kandy when the road was finished?
5. What year was the car that was in Aunt Dolly's garden?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Lalla die?
2. How did Michael describe the only picture he had of his parents together?
3. What did Doris coach the three older children to do when Mervyn lapsed into one of his alcoholic states?
4. When Mervyn was in his twenties, why did he stop a train ten miles out of Colombo?
5. How did Michael get a bath when he was five and attending a boarding school?
6. What did Doris love about Mervyn, even after the divorce?
7. Why was it thought that Rene de Saram's husband was the victim of someone's charm?
8. What did Doris do when she was leaving Mervyn and he threw the car key into the tea bushes?
9. Where did Doris work after the divorce?
10. What did a fortune-teller predict when Doris left Ceylon in 1949?
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