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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 does Gerard find under his train seat?

2. Who does Tamar confess her secret to?

3. Who does Gerard visit to talk about past events?

4. Who has Tamar's new found faith helped her to oppose?

5. What is the only information Jean will give Rose?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Gerard and Rose say about Crimond's book?

2. What are Jean and Duncan keeping from each other?

3. How does Duncan react to Jenkin's death?

4. How has Christianity helped Tamar?

5. Why have Jean and Duncan left for France?

6. What have Duncan and Jean promised each other they will try to achieve?

7. How does Tamar confront her mother?

8. Why does Tamar decide to reconcile with her mother?

9. Why does Gulliver decide to leave Lily?

10. Why does Rose refuse to marry Crimond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author wrote the Book and the Brotherhood in the third person. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the first person?

Essay Topic 2

Replace the play's setting with one of the following settings.

1. France.

2. USA.

3. Ireland.

What new meaning would the new setting give the book? How important is setting for developing meaning in a story?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following and examine it what expresses about mid-1980s British society:

1. Teenage pregnancy.

2. The need to find the right person.

3. Losing sight of one's beliefs.

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