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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. Where does Nancy Rufford live before she begins living with the Ashburnhams?
2. What is Florence Dowell's relationship to John Hurlbird?
3. What is Nancy Rufford's religion?
4. Soon after Leonora Ashburnham marries Captain Edward Ashburnham, what does she discover about her husband? .
5. During the Ashburnham's last night at Nauheim, what does Leonora Ashburnham suggest to her husband?
Short Essay Questions
1. If Leonora has been so patient and accommodating of Captain Edward Ashburnham's actions, why is Leonora unable to forgive Edward for giving money to the woman accused of murdering a baby?
2. How has Captain Edward Ashburnham changed since his youth?
3. Of what significance is the discovery that John Hurlbird's heart disease was a misdiagnosis?
4. Does Leonora Ashburnham approve of the affair between Captain Edward Ashburnham and Maisie Maidan?
5. Do you think the Ashburnhams have ever consummated their marriage?
6. Do you think Nancy is a good judge of character?
7. Why does John Dowell continually excuse Captain Edward Ashburnham from the reader's judgment?
8. Who is Nancy's father? Edward White or Cornell Rufford?
9. Is Leonora Ashburnham a sympathetic character?
10. What must Nancy reject in order to make her decision to meet her mother in Glasgow?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explore Ford's use of symbolism in The Good Soldier. In the essay, explain the significance of the following symbols:
1. The color blue.
2. The heart.
3. Leonora Ashburnham's bracelet.
Essay Topic 2
In Part 1, Chapter 2, John tells a folktale about a wife, known as a she-wolf, who betrays her husband for a poet who pretends to be an emperor. How does this folktale relate to John's story? How does the folktale parallel John's marriage? Does Florence have any she-wolf qualities? How might Edward be like the poet in the folktale?
Essay Topic 3
Why does John Dowell not intervene in Edward Ashburnham's suicide? Does John fail to intervene because he wants to treat Edward as compassionately as one putting down a suffering old dog? Or does John not intervene for more sinister reasons? What are the possible motivations John may have for allowing Edward to die?
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