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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Pollifax drop through a prisoner's cell window?
(a) A coin.
(b) A knife.
(c) A note.
(d) A peace of bread.

2. Who doubts their ability to escape on their own?
(a) Lulash.
(b) Mrs. Pollifax.
(c) Farrell.
(d) The Chinese prisoner.

3. Who says their family has given them up for dead?
(a) Lulash.
(b) Carstairs.
(c) The Chinese man.
(d) Mrs. Pollifax.

4. Who is angry that a party is being planned while they are in captivity?
(a) Roger.
(b) Mrs. Pollifax.
(c) Adhem.
(d) Farrell.

5. Who picks up Mrs. Pollifax, Farrell and the Chinese man when they make it to the sea?
(a) The CIA.
(b) The Persephone.
(c) The FBI.
(d) The shippers.

6. Who lives with the woman who sees Mrs. Pollifax, Farrell and the Chinese man escaping?
(a) A young girl.
(b) Her husband.
(c) A man and a young boy.
(d) Her two children.

7. Who tells Farrell and Mrs. Pollifax that Perdido is to arrive in two days?
(a) Lulash.
(b) Adem.
(c) The Chinese prisoner.
(d) Vassovic.

8. What does Carstairs have Mrs. Pollifax and Farrell do when thy first arrive in the United States after their rescue?
(a) Speak to the media about their capture.
(b) Record the basic facts of their capture on tape.
(c) Eat and sleep.
(d) Speak on a radio newscast about their capture.

9. What does Mrs. Pollifax store in her cell?
(a) A gun.
(b) Food.
(c) A blanket.
(d) Drinks.

10. What does the woman who sees Mrs. Pollifax, Farrell and the Chinese man escaping do for them?
(a) Gives them a room.
(b) Turns them in.
(c) Feeds and clothes them.
(d) Tortures them.

11. Where do Mrs. Pollifax and Farrell hide from the guards during their escape?
(a) Behind a row of barracks.
(b) Inside a cave.
(c) Under an overhang.
(d) In the jungle.

12. Who fires a gun into the ceiling during Lulash and Vassovic's party?
(a) Peridido.
(b) Senor DeGamez.
(c) General Hoong.
(d) Lulash.

13. What does Mrs. Pollifax trade lipsticks for?
(a) A book of paper.
(b) A map.
(c) A compass.
(d) A journal.

14. When Mrs. Pollifax, Farrell and the Chinese man set off walking out of site of the compound, what do they believe to be walking toward?
(a) Danger.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Safety.
(d) Help.

15. Who does Mrs. Pollifax invite into her home for tea at the end of the novel?
(a) Mrs. Hartshorne.
(b) Carstairs.
(c) Jane.
(d) Roger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Pollifax realize she and the others are working as during their escape?

2. What do Mrs. Pollifax, Farrell and the Chinese man steal in order to escape?

3. What does Mrs. Pollifax hear during her morning walk in Chapter 16?

4. Who do Farrell and Mrs. Pollifax believe the Chinese man will do?

5. What is loaded in the cart that Mrs. Pollifax, Farrell and the Chinese man find during their escape?

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