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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 Miss Gaunt’s brother do?

2. For what is Jenny Gray known?

3. In what year does Miss Brodie tell the set the story about Hugh?

4. What does Sandy name the person in question 73?

5. How does the headmistress feel about Miss Brodie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eunice decide to do when she is 39?

2. For what is Miss Brodie known at her school, and what are a few things she has taught her set?

3. What does Sandy realize about the school group and what does she think about as far as Mary Macgregor?

4. How does Mary Macgregor die and what event is shown at the same time her death is shown?

5. What does Mary Macgregor do right after World War II starts and how does she get along with her boyfriend? Do any patterns from your youth still occur?

6. Who are talking to the girls at the beginning of Chapter 1 and how can the girls be distinguished?

7. What happens when Miss Mackay approaches after Miss Brodie has told the history lesson and what does Miss Brodie say about it?

8. What did the book call 1931 for the Brodie set?

9. How does Miss Brodie view education?

10. What is Miss Brodie’s set doing by the opening of Chapter 1, why do they stay connected and how does the headmistress view their relationship with Miss Brodie?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss what you think are the characteristics of a successful novel and why The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is or is not a successful novel based on your criteria. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

Trace and analyze the theme of social and economic classes in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Consider the following questions as you write: Examine which characters are most concerned with class and about what their concern is centered. What are some symbols of class, both wealthy and poor and of the effects of class on individuals? Discuss the characters who see themselves as being in a class above the average person and why they think they are.

Trace and analyze the theme of betrayal in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters have betrayed and which have been betrayed. Consider not just the betrayal of Miss Brodie but the betrayal of the school and betrayals of marriage vows.

Essay Topic 3

Foreshadowing is used in almost all works of fiction. Discuss the following:

What is foreshadowing? Identify three instances of foreshadowing in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and what they foreshadow? How does foreshadowing contribute to a book's suspense? Are there any incidences that you thought foreshadows a future event, but it does not do so?

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