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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. What kind of meat does the pate contain?

2. What does Flora liken Das to?

3. What do Flora and Das stop work to do?

4. What does Mr. Swan refer to the First War of Independence as?

5. What famous writer did Flora have an affair with before she traveled to India?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the first portrait of Flora?

2. Why does Stoppard mention so many famous names?

3. How does Pike know he is in the exact same spot as Flora's old cottage?

4. What does Mrs. Swan tell Anish about Indian history?

5. Describe Flora's first meeting with Mr. Commaraswami.

6. How does Das help Flora when she collapses?

7. Describe Mrs. Swan's first meeting with her husband?

8. What is happening in both eras at the beginning of Act 2, Part 5?

9. What do Flora and Das say about Chamberlain?

10. What does Durance tell Flora about the riot earlier in the day?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does view the twentieth century? What impact has his own ideas on popular culture? Has his impact been mainly positive, or mainly negative?

Essay Topic 2

INDIAN INK is a play. What are the differences between a film and a play in terms of the following:

1. Language

2. Character

3. Structure

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following historical figures in Stoppard's novel and discuss how Stoppard represents them in Indian Ink and why he represents that person in that manner? Are there people who would argue against Stoppard's representation of that person's life?

1. D. H Lawrence.

2. The Rajah.

3. John Chamberlain.

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