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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 is Potter's role during the operation on the ape?

2. What does Jones consider George to be?

3. What do Dr. Potter and Mr. Naughton argue about?

4. What does Pompey say the ape stinks of?

5. How does Rimmer try to get the ape to turn around?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pompey Jones think is his role in life?

2. What is Myrtle's life like with the Hardy family?

3. How does Pompey defend himself when the footman questions why Pompey wants to be more than a servant?

4. How has the Hardy family changed four years later?

5. Summarize the first chapter.

6. How do Rimmer, George and Pompey get the ape to turn around so they can take its photograph?

7. Where does Myrtle follow George in this chapter?

8. Why does Pompey say he almost pities George?

9. What is the situation when George, Myrtle and Dr. Potter arrive in Varna?

10. How does the author express Myrtle's role as an outsider?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pick two characters from the novel and discuss their goals and motives. Do they achieve their motive? Do they share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters? How do the characters goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the characters in the novel and discuss how he or she would cope in one of the following scenarios:

1. His or her's loved one dies.

2. His or her's ship hits a horrific storm.

3. He or she is kidnapped by the Russian side.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the values of the 1850s.

1. In what ways are the characters a product of their time?

2. How does the play express the changes European society was going through at the time?

3. Does modern society share any values with 1850s Europe?

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