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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. Christopher is certainly a person that supports which culture?

2. What finally ends the trouble relationship between Otto and Peter?

3. The young American woos Sally with talk of which of the following?

4. Where do the men go for entertainment?

5. What is the name of the "aimless" and troubled man?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the activity shared by Christopher and Fritz. Does the activity confirm any thoughts about Christopher's sexuality?

2. What is the subtitle to this section? When and where do the events take place?

3. What does Christopher discover when he returns to the Nowak house to pick up Otto?

4. What is the phrase the narrator uses to describe himself?

5. Peter shows several instances of mental illness. Describe the illness and what Peter has chosen to do about it.

6. What happens to Bernard at the end of the story? What does it really mean?

7. What was Christopher's reaction to being flirted with by two of the three ill women at the sanitarium?

8. What events lead up to the first problems with Sally and Christopher?

9. Who is Clive? What is the relationship between Sally, Christopher and Clive?

10. Who are the residents of the boarding house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast William Bradshaw, narrator of "The Last of Mr. Norris" and his alter-ego, author Christopher Isherwood. Why does Isherwood use an alter-ego to narrate the first book and then choose to narrate the second as himself?

Essay Topic 2

Bradshaw, Christopher and others were expatriates living in Berlin. What is an expatriate? Have you ever met one? Are you one? Where might you find an expatriate? What are your opinions on expatriates? Write a 500-word essay about becoming an expatriate OR find at least five famous expatriates and write a short bio on each.

Essay Topic 3

Piet makes the comment that his country should have a leader as strong as Hitler. Piet sees Hitler as a man of ambition and a man without ambition should not exist. Explain what Piet meant by that statement. How was Piet comparing his government to the Nazi regime? What was Bradshaw's reaction? Do you think Piet was correct? Do you consider Hitler to be an ambitious person? Explain.

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