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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 year was the car that was in Aunt Dolly's garden?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1935.

2. What type of animal droppings surrounded the house on stilts in the jungle, where Michael and his family stayed?
(a) Deer.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Elephant.
(d) Boar.

3. Near where did David Grenier drown?
(a) Jaffna.
(b) Batticaloa.
(c) Negombo.
(d) Kelaniya.

4. How far did Michael say one could drive in Ceylon and be in a different landscape?
(a) 20 miles.
(b) 25 miles.
(c) 15 miles.
(d) 10 miles.

5. Where did lightning strike the house on the tea estate?
(a) Porch roof.
(b) A back bedroom.
(c) The attic.
(d) Near the fuse box.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mervyn's favorite resthouse?

2. How many feet did Michael and his companions climb in thirty miles when they drove to the tea estate?

3. What was Mervyn's rank in the Ceylon Light Infantry when Michael was born?

4. As a teen, what song did Michael dance disgracefully to with girls?

5. What poets did Doris enjoy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lalla do when Shelton de Saram broke their engagement?

2. Why was Mervyn banned from the Ceylon Railroads after 1943?

3. What did Doris do when she was leaving Mervyn and he threw the car key into the tea bushes?

4. What was Michael's mother doing when David Grenier drowned?

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. What was Michael's Aunt Dolly like?

7. How did Mervyn nearly kill his three older children?

8. How did Lalla die?

9. Why did Lalla come to Kuttapitiya when Michael and his family lived there?

10. Why couldn't Mervyn stand Lalla?

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