The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Helene Hanff
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Helene Hanff
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Ms. Hanff's fan at the airport?
(a) The Colonel.
(b) Frank Doel.
(c) Pat Buckley.
(d) Sheila Doel.

2. Ms. Grenfell drove Ms. Hanff home afterward, having difficulty finding a way to get to the hotel's front door. Why?
(a) Because her car was too large for the street.
(b) Because the road was blocked off.
(c) Because there was a great deal of traffic.
(d) Because of all the one way streets that surround it.

3. What did they do at this location?
(a) They stopped for drinks.
(b) They got dessert.
(c) They had lunch.
(d) They ate icecream.

4. Instead, what did Ms. Hanff and her friends do?
(a) They saw A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(b) They had a pleasant dinner.
(c) They went on a tour of London.
(d) They stayed in.

5. On Wednesday, June 30, Ms. Hanff received what while attempting to eat her breakfast?
(a) A text.
(b) A letter.
(c) A fax.
(d) Several phone calls.

6. That night, Ms. Hanff went to dinner with whom?
(a) Leo Marks and his wife, Ena.
(b) The Colonel.
(c) Mr. Buckley.
(d) Nora and Sheila Doel.

7. Ms. Hanff was also planning to use what to pay for her stay?
(a) Gifts from her family.
(b) Her most recent paycheck.
(c) Her advance on the book.
(d) The money she earned from a previous book.

8. About what did Ms. Hanff learn while at dinner with Nora and her daughter?
(a) More about the wife and daughter of her pen pal.
(b) Places to visit.
(c) English history.
(d) Life in England.

9. Buckley encouraged Ms. Hanff to visit what the following day?
(a) St John's Chapel.
(b) The Guards Chapel.
(c) The Royal Chapel.
(d) The Queen's Chapel.

10. Afterward, she went across the street to get some cold medicine and supplies only to discover what?
(a) The store was closed.
(b) A bulletin board covered in questionable advertisements.
(c) They did not sell cold medicine.
(d) They were out of all the cold medication.

11. Ms. Hanff admires the calm and quiet of London, but misses what?
(a) The beaches of Los Angeles.
(b) The comforts of Chicago.
(c) The weather of Miami.
(d) The chaos that reigns in New York.

12. Describe Ms. Hanff's hotel room.
(a) Dirty.
(b) Luxurious.
(c) Average.
(d) Plain.

13. Ms. Hanff got a call from a fan who invited her to visit ___________. Ms. Hanff agreed because she wanted to see the college that John Donne, John Henry Newmann, and Arthur Quiller-Couch had attended, three writers whom Ms. Hanff credits with teaching her a great deal about writing.
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Eaton.
(c) Reading.
(d) Oxford.

14. Who was supposed to meet Ms. Hanff at the airport?
(a) Nora and Sheila Doel and a fan of her book.
(b) Frank Doel and his family.
(c) Mr. Buckley and a fan of her book.
(d) Ms. Hanff's cousin and the Doels.

15. Eddie and Isabel were conservative people at home. How did they act in London?
(a) Worried.
(b) Relaxed.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Conservatively.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was realized when she arrived here?

2. Where was Ms. Hanff taken after she left the airport?

3. Ms. Hanff was embarrassed when?

4. What did this stop cause?

5. Later Ms. Hanff went to Pat Buckley's home where they _______________.

(see the answer keys)

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