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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Gwendolyn after Grandcourt drowns?

2. Who does Daniel tell about the news of his ethnicity?

3. What religion does Daniel's mother tell him that she believes in?

4. What does Gwendolyn confess to Daniel while they are at the Abbey?

5. Why does Hans stay with Daniel instead of his own mother during a visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Gwendolyn hesitant to talk to Daniel while she is staying at the Abbey?

2. Where does Mordecai take Daniel before he tells him his life story?

3. What does the reader learn about the Arrowpoints during the conversation among Daniel, Grandcourt and Gwendolyn at the Abbey?

4. Why had Daniel's mother marry so quickly?

5. What does Grandcourt tell Gwendolyn about finances?

6. What kind of wedding ceremony do Daniel and Mirah have?

7. Before she confides in him, what does Daniel surmise about Gwendolyn's knowledge of Lydia?

8. What does Gwendolyn tell Sir Hugo about what Grandcourt has left her?

9. How did Daniel's mother come to find out about him as an adult?

10. What does Mordecai say about the Mrs. Cohen's older daughter when Daniel first asks about her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Gwendolyn comments that she does not want to continue tutoring her younger sister because she is ignorant. Write a well-reasoned essay that discusses 1) which character from the text is the most ignorant; 2) what evidence from the text supports your choice; and 3) two literary devices that Eliot uses to convey that character's ignorance to the reader.

Essay Topic 2

Using supporting text from the book, write a well-reasoned essay discussing whether the character of Gwendolyn is capable of loving anyone.

Essay Topic 3

Select a character from the list below. Then examine three major choices that the character made in the play, and what those choices reveal to the reader about that him or her.

1) Gwendolyn

2) Daniel

3) Rex

4) Grandcourt

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