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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 the cost to transport William's luggage to his first destination?

2. What important individual initially meets William at the equipment emporium?

3. Into what airport does William fly after leaving England?

4. What animal does the Captain of the <i>Francmacon</i>'s wife keep as a pet?

5. What food do William, the French administrator, and the administrator's children reject while dining on the <i>Francmacon</i>?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the primary point of the thesis of Smiles Soum's manifesto?

2. Why does William not travel with the rest of the journalists to Laku?

3. Why does Uncle Theodore sporadically sing snatches of old songs?

4. Describe William's interaction with his unusual fellow passenger in the restaurant car of the train to Marseilles.

5. With what common and well-practiced activity is William content to live out his life?

6. What begins to bother William professionally towards the end of Chapter 2?

7. In what way does Lord Copper directly contradict himself while speaking to William about the Ishmaelian conflict?

8. How does Nannie Boggs misunderstand Mr. Salter's visit to Boot Magna Hall?

9. What does the Boot family think about Mr. Salter when he arrives at Boot Magna Hall?

10. How does Mrs. Stitch persuade Lord Copper to seek out John Boot as the foreign war correspondent to Ishmaelia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As both a member of the aristocracy and the proprietor of The Daily Beast, Lord Copper is the link between the two primary targets of satire in Waugh's Scoop. Compose a thoroughly developed analytical essay on the character of Lord Copper. With what sort of people does he associate? What are his motivations in his actions? Is he a man of deep thought or mere self-importance? In what ways is his portrayal in Scoop satirical? What does this portrayal imply about the aristocracy? What does it imply about the newspaper industry?

Essay Topic 2

An essential and amusing part of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop is the use of telegrams, or cables for short. Write an analytical essay on their significance to the story, both in terms of character development and of satirization of the newspaper industry. What do the cables demonstrate about the particular characters in the story? What do they tell the reader about the newspaper industry?

Essay Topic 3

Though changed from the time of Rudyard Kipling's 1899 poem "The White Man's Burden," Waugh sarcastically implies that many in Europe still feel an interventionist need to help those of less-fortunate countries. Write an analytical essay which broadly outlines the idea of the white man's burden and how such plays a role in the European interest in the Ishmaelite civil war. How does this interest show itself? In what ways is Europe interested in Ishmaelia? Does this interest seem more active or passive?

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